Manor Lords released today and I was about to buy it after getting back home from work, but now the product page says it's just an Early Access? I am confused since there was no Early Access information shown at first.

The dev mentioned some time ago that the game will be released as EA for now.

Thanks! I was somehow convinced that announcing a release date actually means that the game will be released. Apparently I was wrong.

Yeah, that was a long time ago, when that was the case. I learned in the meantime, that there are announcements for an announcement. (I think it was about Diablo 4).

But as far as I remember it was always the case that Manor Lords would release to Early access.