Hm, yes, that seems to be correct. I only became aware of DF-9 when it had already been on Steam for a while, so I am basing most of this on what I have heard

Hm, yes, that seems to be correct. I only became aware of DF-9 when it had already been on Steam for a while, so I am basing most of this on what I have heard from those who were there at the start. The Kickstarter thing seems to be a conflation of the first two weeks on Early Access thing you mentioned and DF having done at least one Kickstarter for an unrelated project in the same timeframe.