I wanted to give this a try, since the premise of the story interests me greatly. Unfortunately, the sandbox/grind element puts this into the dumpster along with 99% of other sandbox games.
After the intro, you're shown the sandbox HUD, with no direction other than explore the city for money making opportunities. Right off the bat, it's yet another game where you're clicking randomly at locations, moving your mouse all over the screen hoping to find something to move the story along. It's not a secret that the vast majority of players prefer VN, but are ok with sandbox as long as there isn't much grind involved, and the player isn't spending 15 minutes clicking every available location without a clue of what to look for.
Shame really, you can tell the Dev put a lot of work to make this visually appealing, but the sandbox/grind ruins any possibility of making it all that special/popular.