Ahhh I'm terribly sorry your experience wasn't the best, I'll take your criticism to heart. Understandable that you tried the aforementioned things and you're frustrated it didn't appear to do anything, or that it wasn't clear how to make progress. There is a very limited vocabulary at the moment, so I intend on remedying that as we continue and allowing a much wider breadth of interactions. For now I believe a patch is in order to fix these issues. Thank you for taking the time for your comment.
Thank you for listening and accepting the criticism, it's definitely not easy hearing harsh things. It's also not easy making a game from the ground up either, so I definitely understand it will take time to grow. I'll be sure to keep up with the game's development, and I really hope you keep at it for long enough that this game starts to shine and gain some traction. It fills a niche that not many other games do, so I definitely would love to see this grow!
Tl;dr, Thanks for taking criticism, and best of luck with this project.