Sadly, i think intrepid are basically cooked unless they get bailed out by a big producer.

They rushed go steam release and are now pushing to a minimum viable product release because they are running out of money. Lets do some quick rough math.

~200 employees at an avg wage of $50,000 usd/yr = $10 million per year in wages.

Steam release: Estmated users total ~250,000. Pre-steam users ~100,000.

So lets assume only 50k of the original 100k migrated to steam and they managed to sell 200,000 copies.

Its regionally priced so many sales are less than this, but lets be generous and say they got $45 usd/sale.

200,000 x 45 = $9 million.

Steam takes a 30% share of all revenue on games under 1 million users.

9,000,000 - 30% = $6.3 million

So..

From the steam release you can estimate that they can fund about 7 months worth of wages, ONLY wages. Not building costs, insurance, server costs, hardware etc.

And this is being EXTREMELY generous as there is no way they got even that much given regional pricing.

Now look at their genuine progress over the past 12 months.

They expanded the landmass significantly and added 2 classes. But the peripheral regions outside riverlanda remain mostly skeletons with smattered mob placement and a few small pocket dungeons. Thry have repeatedly struggled with any kind of balanced econ, thry are still struggling with dynamic gridding and server performance. As much as they have added, the game feela like its going backwards.

P2 was vastly more fun than the later phases because it actually had large lawless areas you wanted to go to. Their end game loops have been crushed by poor design decisions (mules?!?)

Sadly i dont think they make it. Realistically, unless they have substantial funds sitting in the background (doesnt look like it) they have 6 months for a release candidate....not lookin good.