Thank you so much for playing and thank you for the honest feedback! I know sometimes it can be a bit nerve-racking leaving comments that contain criticisms but it's really helpful, so thank you for that!
This wasn't intended to be a period piece and the 1800's date was meant to place it in the timeline of my other games-- but I can totally see how that's very confusing and gives the wrong impression. In the future I'll try to designate it as "1800 EP" or something to try to make it more obviously fantasy world, haha.
We did use early 1900's circus iconography as well as art nouveau buildings as visual influence but other than that it was mostly written as a "light-hearted pop circus story". Personally, I'm not interested in portraying the more depressing aspects of that time period (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.) when writing a more light-hearted story.
Thank you so much for playing, for recording your playthrough and for leaving a comment! It really helps to hear feedback from all players~!