As many others have pointed out, the concept of the game looks amazing, but there is no reason to believe any of it will come to fruition. A new developer creating one of the coolest, triple AAA looking and feeling games? Yeah right.

I do think there is one source of inspiration this developer can use, which is to look at Bright Memory. This ambitious sci-fi shooter with sword combat was mainly developed by a single developer. And he made a game that looks amazing, feels good and was pretty enjoyable.

Two key factors are the reusing of Unreal assets and the short campaign length. It first released as Bright Memory: Episode One, a fifty minute game chapter that proved the developer's ability to actually produce something. After that, the developer used the publicity and acquired funds to expand and improve it into a 120+ minute game called Bright Memory: Infinite. And now the developer has even more available funds to work on something even more advanced and perhaps expansive.

When the developer of Alkahest talks about quality over quantity, I hope they mean it and really focus on something they can manage. Then sell it for 10-20 bucks and grow.