I really liked how this game played with my expectations.
Oddly enough though, even though it subverted expectations, marketing itself as a dating sim but actually being a meta horror, I still kinda got what I wanted out of a dating sim.
I got characters that I wanted to befriend and root for, and want to see them succeed. In that way, it was actually a really effective visual novel.
Ever seen the pictures of people who take USB sticks around town and jokingly call them 'dates'?