Then you never saw an actual essay if you take my little message for an essay, "bro". 😏
So your reasoning is that if something is free then you have to be grateful for it no matter what it is?
My philosophy is: If you can't do something good then don't do it at all instead of doing it bad. Nothing is always better than bad things.
Moreover, you assume that "this game is free" because you account only for the cost in money but you don't account the cost in time to read this visual novel whereas time is a limited resource as well since we are not eternal, our life time is limited and every moment that we waste is a moment that we will never ever get back and there are so many things to experience in life for us to afford to waste our limited time in uninspired unoriginal stories full of meaningless fan-service, this visual novel costed me DAYS of my life wasted during which I forced myself to continue a story which already got me utterly bored after only a few days because of its overwhelming massive amount of unoriginal and meaningless content until I eventually couldn't take any more of it and gave up half-way, the best moment of this uninspired visual novel was when I deleted it from my PC, I felt relieved that I was FINALLY rid of it.
Moremoreover, he did NOT "make this game for free" since he is funded through Patreon.
And this is not even a game since it doesn't contain any gameplay, only pictures and texts, this is a visual novel.
Did you read his previous visual novel, Twenty Worlds Agency: Stories Of Department 13? I don't think so otherwise you would understand why I am so very disappointed in Timeless Island therefore I suggest you to download TWA and experience how inspired and fun he was before he turned into a mindless factory which mass produces boring fan-service THEN you will understand my disappointment.