I really love the game's narrative setting and the characterization of several characters, and I'm so grateful to my friend for recommending it to me.
Honestly, it's such a shame I never came across this title despite browsing games on Itch.io for ages. To this day, I still can't wrap my head around how the platform's tag filtering system works.
Whenever I filter by tags like Adult and Harem, all I end up with are fairly popular games. It's really hard to find works from new developers, ultra-niche titles, or games with barely any players or reviews. Sometimes I even fall down an endless rabbit hole of referrals: I check out other games recommended by a game's developer, then browse picks from those devs, and just keep digging deeper layer by layer like a nesting doll.
It truly takes quite a bit of effort to unearth high-quality hidden gems on this platform, haha.