I like the art style.
I think you should have a look at your tags again. I always suspect "story rich visual novels" to be kinetic novels. From your description this sounds more like a point & click game with a bit of sandbox and dating sim.
You can have 1 main genre and 10 tags/genres. And from description it does not sound like main genre visual novel. But the genre choices on Itch are limited. I would consider things like horror, hidden objects and point & click to be genres, but they are mere tags on Itch.
Did not try it yet. But you have a screenshot with a questlog. Visual novels usually do not have quests. Rpgs have quests. (Dating) sims have a calendar. Hidden object games have ... hidden objects. And if there is a challenge, this might even be a puzzle game of the point & click type.