Thanks for playing!! I agree we may have missed the mark slightly on the theme. I think we did well with the magical elements representing real life issues, but you're right that the world itself is lacking in realism. (And thank you for the compliments on the backgrounds, I did those!! <3)
One of those paths (the one that goes abruptly to credits) was unintentional, and we're hoping to fix it in a post-voting patch! The one where the game shuts down was very much intentional. Hopefully once we clean things up (like the audio issues where two tracks often overlap) it will become easier to tell what was intentional!
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Ah, I see! I was kinda hoping that this one was intentional - it does make sense in a nicely surreal way. But it's really hard to tell that it's not a bug. I can't say how I would fix that without ruining the effect, but I'll gladly return to play it again when you release the patch. After all, I still need to finish that other remaining path.