One actually makes a game for the fun of all, without asking for money, patreon, etc. just to contribute, not expecting you would rate the game a 1 because you can’t cheat. Honestly, I don’t know why I bothered making a game. You would say that I shouldn’t have bothered, and I’m thinking you might be totally right.
PD: You can cheat and put the variables at the maximum you would get at that point, not go crazy. The game doesn’t check if you have touched the save file. The reason is because I was planning to have dialogue, the side board and other stuff change according to these variables, and I wanted to control them so the game wouldn’t break. Not that you care, but I believe that if you would asked the reason behind this, or suggested to change it, it would have been healthier for the two of us.
First things first, you need to care less about reviews. Not everyone will like every game. You will make divisive choices such as NTR or no NTR, blacked or no blacked, sissy or no sissy. No matter what you pick you piss off one side and get some bad reviews. Just make the best game you can make.
As for bothering? You definitely
should've bothered and you can 100% improve this game to be a top game.
1 star is not because you can't cheat it's because of several reasons combined - all of which I mentioned in the review briefly.
1) The game shows some promise in formatting/writing/coding/story but ends without showing any scenes whatsoever. Right now it's not a porn game.
2) The only way to get something adjacent to porn is to replay the game 15 times guessing what outcomes lead to the right stats and guessing what stat locks allow you to click certain options. This isn't fun or interesting gameplay - hence the cheating.
3) When presented with an unfun non-porn gameplay loop I loaded a save editor to skip the shit and the game locked itself for detecting cheating. This means instead of coding playable content you coded anti-cheat checks. I have no idea what they SHOULD be so I just set them to 10, because every choice I made seemed to lock future content with no implication as to how or why.
I don't care if you make a patreon, I'd encourage it, if you make a game you deserve to get paid. It will help you. Do it. Make it right now.
In my personal view the review is warranted. Right now this is an unfun game with zero porn. It's up to you if you care about that feedback and wish to use any of it in your design process. You can also think "man you cant please everyone" and add more of the same. Up to you.
It has the potential to be 5 star in the future but it needs at least 2-3 hours of content and less awkward stat gating. You can't expect more than 2-3 stars for a game which has zero porn on a porn site.