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I went out of my way to give lengthy and very detailed reviews for a lot of games, including many less reviewed ones. ‘superficial’ is certainly not the kind of flaws I have — I do have others, granted. ;)
I don’t say you ‘forced’ users to write. I am saying you used a classic psychological mechanism to achieve some wanted result — which is what happened (many a YouTuber uses it: ‘Hey, if X, tell me in the comments!’). The responsability is shared between the one that knowingly uses the mechanism and those that blindly rush into it, so I am not saying people are not to blame.

Nevertheless, please explain why you think your game was so popular then. I am all ears and am ready to change my mind if you convince me. To be precise, I am not saying there are no other reasons (such as promoting the entry elsewhere), but I still think what I identified is a factor that comes into play.
(I notice you resorted to a personal attack instead of a genuine defence of your game, which is unfair and sounds like you could not justify what I pointed out — otherwise, you would have given an answer. In contrast, I did not judge you in general, as I do not know you, I merely judged what I saw from the entry, and I stand by what I have said.)

(By the way, my assessment was the same as  that of some others that came here, I did not even indulge in bashing the game — I never do this. Were I really superficial, I would have said your game was totally unworthy on the mere basis of the ‘gain-popularity’ issue, which would be dishonest; let me reiterate that the visual, audio and ‘feedback’ aspects sound professional. That was quite a compliment!)

No hard feelings, but please do not indulge in attacking someone’s character as a way to defend your game. I am not an aggressive person and I always feel this kind of behaviour to be overtaxing. I would be glad to be mistaken. :)