To clarify again (Patreon)

A few people have likely missed the posts we've made about this as I've gotten some questions about it recently, but;

When we submit the game to Steam, that's not the release date of the game, that's the submission date.

That means that until Steam approves the game, we can't release the game anywhere.

It's something our hands are tied on, and as far as how long Steam will take to check the game (especially with NextFest stuff coming up), it's anyone's guess; it could be a day, a week, two weeks, etc.

For a comparison here, it took Steam 5 days to check the one level demo for Future Fragments back when we got it in the NextFest earlier this year.

Additionally, there is the possibility that Steam rejects the game due to wanting it to be more complete, so if that happens, we'll have to resubmit it, but I think that's an unlikely situation at this point.