I recently learned about this game, would you guys recommend it in its current state?

[Jemuzu]

I recently learned about the existence of this game, and while it looks pretty cool I noticed steam said it hasn't been updated in 2 years, and that's definitely a reason to be cautious of buying the game

so I'm curious if it's worth buying in its current state. even if it doesn't get more updates I might not mind if it's already in a good state

[MegaIng]

Originally posted by Jemuzu:

I recently learned about the existence of this game, and while it looks pretty cool I noticed steam said it hasn't been updated in 2 years, and that's definitely a reason to be cautious of buying the game

so I'm curious if it's worth buying in its current state. even if it doesn't get more updates I might not mind if it's already in a good state

Well, if you did any amount of basic research (like reading here the steam forum) you would have learned that it still is in very active development. The current alpha is already leagues ahead of where stable is, and stable is already more than worth the money.

[Goblin]

The game, as per the last actual release, has always been pretty much finished in my opinion. You learn how to make a computer, how to program it, add some useful quality of life features to it, and get some advanced extra programming tasks to work on at the end. Worth the price, could've just slapped a 1.0 sticker on it and removed the early access status long ago.

But it IS also being worked on. You can even play the updated version, it's just really rough around the edges with UI bugs, instructions that could be clearer, and in some cases even difficulty to get it running on your machine. It's a dev build, this is to be expected.
What the update adds is the simulation running a lot faster, the programming functionality being more customizable, and levels that guide you closer to modern a more advanced CPU. Minus the changes to the programming interface you could already do anything it adds, just without the game instructing you to do so. There's people who implemented crazy advanced (to me at least) 32 bit computers with floating point numbers and stuff in the base game already, they just make your computer chug like you're playing a modern Capcom game.

[Alice ⦂☽]

As the others said, the game is actually quite good as it is and it's still under development. The next update is just taking far longer than expected due to how complicated it is and the dev is, for some reason, reluctant to actually let the community know what's happening until the release is ready. I would recommend reading through the last update post the dev made at the end of February (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1444480/eventcomments/599645410929173553/ ).