Steam seems to have delisted it. Strangely, the game's website is still up. There's been no activity from the developer on any channel since 2015, and the last contact anyone has had with them seems to be a news article about changing the direction of the game that went up in February of 2016. So, probably dead? I figure they want people to forget it ever existed. Joke's on them, I never forget anything!

Quick read of the steam forum and seems it's been dead over a year but steam was still selling it...

I would say that it's almost certainly dead. Are there any examples of games coming back from something like this? I could only imagine it happening if it was like one developer cranking away in a basement and without time or skills to communicate.

It's really a shame what the Atari properties have become. I know that most people here are too young to have any nostalgia or memory of the Atari era (and truthfully I mostly am too, though I had a friend with a 7800 growing up) but these are absolutely the classic foundations of video games. It's like the silent movie era of the medium, and it deserves a lot more respect than this. I wish some deep-pocketed company like Microsoft would buy the rights out from these scamsters, but I guess the numbers don't add up.

To be fair, though, those Atari arcade and 2600 game collections they put out for the PC, Xbox, and PS4 recently were alright, so maybe this is just them cutting ties with a bad era of terrible games and focusing on selling the catalog. That'd be much better.

It's funny to think that Activision split away from Atari to pursue credit for gamemakers and more ambitious games. Now Activision is a massive publisher and one of the most powerful forces in the gaming industry and Atari is just some IP floating around from hand to hand.

Figured this was going to die someday. About this game not updating, is there a case where a game is pulled from early access due to lack of activity? Like say a game not being updated in over a year like Asteroids. My assumption is no, and they just pulled the plug on it in hopes nobody noticed.

@bigsocrates: I mean, what do you do with Asteroids? I don't think this is a situation where no one is trying figure it out, but I just don't feel like there's money to be made.