The other post is fake news. Listen to the first 3 minutes of that podcast for yourself, he said he MAY return to ATG, or may do some other project.

At 00:01:35 he states that has no time nor budget to work on the game. https://thegamedesignroundtable.com/episode/325-civilization-series-7-with-jon-shafer/

No. You shouldn't. The game is not receiving any updates for 1 year, it is buggy, unbalanced and you should not support it. There is a plethora of better games on steam, don't waste your money on this money grabber.

Like many of you, I found the fundamentals of the game solid and ideas intriguing. Thank you Jon for getting it to here largely by yourself! However, many aspects are lacking, and as design decisions (such as food-stored-as-quantity VS food as number of turns) shifted, occupations, pricing, difficult arc and many other aspects quickly got very unbanlanced IMHO. So I made a mod for myself in order to enjoy the game. After spending many, many hours on it, I figured it makes sense to share it with everyone!...

Hi, I seriously don't understand why Jon is putting out updates for this mess. The game is not working and I have absolutely no idea what you guys are doing when you are playing it. It reminds me about myself playing "Rings of Medusa" when I was 12 years old. No manual, no clue what to do, it LOOKED complex, it LOOKED interesting, but it wasn't. Just like this mess of a game. So ... can somebody give me any idea about why this thing is still getting updated? Jon's career in the industry is not going to...