Why does this game has only 3.5 points. Its a 4 too 4.5 points
I think it boils down to having too many tags that lead people to have unrealistic beliefs. Female protagonists, lesbians tags might pull in bigger audience but more people seeing it might not always be a good thing when they then get jaded.
Doesn't help that the mods and Andrealphus don't seem to be a great terms. Maybe from his stance on not supporting piracy and this being mostly a piracy site.
But you can also read those one/two star comments and they are mostly mouth breathers that haven't started frontal lobe development but are determined to open their flaps on "why having less choices is good" basically kinetic VN fans that don't realize these are supposed to be
games not "my child's click along coloring slides"
, developing a decent choice branched/sandbox system takes much more skill and effort - and is also much more rewarding.
Pretty much all the top games are sandboxes for good reason. Minecraft, GTA, Witcher 3.
It's weird how this site specifically has 10% of the vocal audience who actively hate having choices, or maybe they are the 10 alt accounts of KVN devs who lack the ability to make more sophisticated content. Who knows.
But I can understand the justification of people placing it at 3-4 stars. The game has frankly grown too large, and can easily take up an entire weekend or more if you are trying to get everyone. Trying to craft the perfect optimal playthrough with random bugs or mechanics popping 30 hours in to stop that can frustrating.