There are let's plays of it on Paradox's youtube channel, it looks awful and unfinished after two years in development. I don't need to travel to Lisbon to tell me that. Considering it was going to be released this week, it's really no shock it was canceled. It makes all the sense in the world if Paradox expected it to bomb hard to cancel it

Never heard another mod creator/team describe it as "creating a brand".
Special kind of crazy.