Ah thank you very very much! I'm glad that you enjoyed it that much and glad that you did actually get lucky and find it. Also of course thank you very much for leaving a review and helping to make sure others won't have quite such a difficult time as you did. Because yeah, one of the easiest, cheapest and single most helpful thing one can do for a VN they enjoy, is to leave a 5* review on here.
Get's the game pushed further up the lists when people search for the big search terms and thus more people get to try it. :)
Overall though itch's algorithm is pretty alright, let's be honest. More unknown games might be a few scrolls away but they're certainly out there and possible to be found! It's not nearly as awful as other algorythmically-based sites where if you don't do the numbers then you're just not getting shown to anyone.