Slitherine are publishing. It's being developed by Black Lab, who are a Western Australian indie dev whose previous work is mostly
this space game which has 76% (Mostly Positive) on Steam and 69 on Metacritic. Looking through the low scoring Metacritic reviews the consensus seems to be that a mediocre campaign with poor mission design dragged down good combat mechanics. If they can improve on that it should be alright.