I think the general concept seems really interesting! I do think some more direction onto what the different controls are and what is going on could be a big help in knowing what to do, even in just the games description! personally I wasn't sure how to interpret the feedback the game was giving me so I didn't know how to best react to it.
In terms of getting more people to play your game it may be people just don't know what to comment on it because they couldn't get very far, so even just adding some direction in the description could help get traction! Keep trying you got this and I think this is a really interesting premise based on the description I just wasn't sure how best to experience it but I do think programmatically it's really impressive and you did good work!