I'll be honest, I am not a huge fan of visual novels. I understand the appeal though. Nevertheless, I did love the mechanic of having the game flow like a messaging app. Our brains are so used to Discord/Slack UX now that it just felt intuitive to play through. The fact that the texting style was relatable too and in short messages made it so nice to progress. I guess I'm in the target demographic haha
The game was surprisingly fun! Each character was nicely defined and the story itself was easy to understand. Everything flowed nicely from the first day to the last.
Like the other commenters, I didn't piece together the relation to the theme until I read the game's description. I felt I locked myself into a specific ending by my first choice (which I had mistakenly picked), and then I was locked into the super authoritarian (or I guess neutral) route. I assume there's three routes (neutral, all good, all bad), but I didn't try to get all of them.
Great job on the game and incredibly impressive to be pulled off by one person.