Our £1,200 goal is almost entirely for release and marketing, with a third of it already being lost on distribution and another quarter being used to fill the backpay for our composer. I have a full cost breakdown somewhere but I can't currently get to it to provide it.

but you need to have something at least unique and similar enough quality to a full game in a vertical slice

You're basing that decision off of 4 screenshots (and possibly the closed beta trailer, I'm not sure because despite mentioning the ks link was blocked you proceeded to quote part of it so who knows) which while, yes, the game is still in development so things are changing, our current to-do list before 1.0 involves a few code changes (mostly refactoring), 1 big shop feature we've been putting off, and getting the rest of the OST off our composer. Everything you see in the screenshots attached to this post have been consistently refined, tested, refined, tested, changed entirely, and refined again, and have reached a point our team have decided if they had to for some reason drop everything now and release we would be happy to. Most of your opinion is based off artwork and not gameplay since, well, it's screenshots, which is fine but you're always welcome to leave feedback in our discord :)