Their kickstarter was back in 2013 if I'm not mistaken. The RogSys author talks about it on his site. His just released an early access version of the core modules which I've thrown $10 into so I can have a look - if it looks like it's gonna go places I'll increase that. So far it's incredibly complex and the realistic Newtonian flight's a huge step away from all the "spitfires in space" games. Takes me about 15 minutes just to start a ship up and move away from the station, and about 20 minutes to dock from 2km away! Whether you'd enjoy that or not comes down to whether you want to pilot a space ship, or pewpew at space invaders, I guess.
Looks promising. As soon as rift support is added I will be in