Some misconceptions I'll take a shot at here...
So you can't really do much to interact, with steam moderators, unless you are a multi-million dollar affair like in the range of bringing Valve 10+ million in, otherwise, they're not going to give a shit about you or your program unless you can somehow get a larger entity to get involved. IE, that game (Depression Quest) Zoe Quinn made... which despite some review bomb "intervention" still sits at a pretty negative mixed with just 13 "mostly positive" reviews lately.
There was some scrubbing of a mass of reviews, but when Valve does this they are not MANUALLY doing anything. They take the bot that normally runs and run it again with more stringent qualifiers, this will cull more reviews. I'm not a fan of it I think review bombs can be a positive tool for the consumer sometimes... other times review bombs are bullshit like when Chinese users attacked subverse over BS reasons.
Curators are just... literally any person you want to sign up and run one of those accounts. Most people don't follow them, they're largely a completely pointless system. The only ones people seriously follow are either Youtuber/Twitch influencers or Gimmick accounts like Commander Shepard.
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Even at the end of the day after Valve re-applies more stringent filtering, you have the option on the game page to enable all reviews including "off-topic" scrubbed ones. If you go over to subverse for example you can see that the vast majority of these reviews bought the game, refunded the game and were just slinging shit at them for not including a Chinese translation. It had nothing to do with the actual game itself and a decision based on legal reasons.
This is where I'm gonna have to say, bull fucking shit my dude. Kuro is one dude working to make a cute game he has dumped a shit ton of money into. Few people have put so much into a project personally.
The vast majority of developers and studios are trying to make something fun and engaging. Because, surprise, that's how we make money. You're pretending like TorchEntertainment has the budget of fucking Rockstar or Activision, and regardless of how well Critical Bliss has done lately, they do not have marketing money to sell hype. Just look at the marketing for this game... does this really look like it's going to sell based on hype? lol no. It has a leg up in SEO and that's about it.
The reason this game is getting very positive is that the response has been very positive. It's a cute game, it has great graphics, it's rough and has a lot of shit that needs to be sorted out but for an old-fashion "Just porn no story" game, it's what a lot of people are looking for. At $17Canadian it's placed right in the proper place for most people money-wise.
You're looking for something untoward when in actuality the people on steam just have different priorities than what you are demanding.
