What’s a reasonable price for 250+ hours of unique (not roguelike/proc gen) gameplay with AAA level production values? Just curious, I’m not sure what my own answer would be.

That’s unfortunate. It sounds like they recognized the burnout, that their new project was poorly scoped and would not be completed without further damaging personal relationships, so they pulled the plug. A healthy decision IMO. I wonder if any other small developers following up an initial big success need to learn from this? 🍒