I just wanted to point out that all Keen games are developed by id software (the same guys who wrote wolf3d, doom etc.). Apogee and FormGen are just publishers.
I remember reading from Masters of Doom that Apogee did want to publish all keens, even this one. But FormGen struck some sort of deal with id and as the result the last episode of the second keen trilogy (this game) was published by FormGen.
Lastly Keens were (except this one) published as shareware ie. the first game of a trilogy was free to everyone and those who wanted play more just bought 2nd and 3rd episode. So the first and fourth Keens are still available as free downloads. Quick glance at id's site tells that they're still selling Keens 2, 3, 5.
Oh, there actually is seventh keen game which was sold to softdisk which published it. The game's called Keen Dreams. I think it's still sold at softdisk site. And there's GBA Keen which was only produced by id (just like Quake 4 or upcoming Quake Wars: Enemy Territory)
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