So I would love for this game to succeed because the models are quite appealing but a sandbox is the furthest away from an acceptable game that you can come. Sandbox games aren't aimed for enjoyment, they just waste everyone's time. The players time because no one ever remembers or even enjoys a game for the repetitive grinding or the repeated scenes just to get a pointless stat up by one. That's not why anyone plays these games. And it wastes the developers time because you have to design all these menus and minigames and everything that frankly no one cares about and no one wants. You could have spent that development time on JUST telling a story, on introducing new characters, making new scenes, developing relationships... you know, any of the things that players actually cares about and the things that you as a developer should WANT to be doing.
If this would have been made as a kinetic novel it would have been an objectively better experience, not to mention that more story would be done by now, because time wouldn't have been wasted on pointless stuff. The minigames, the game-over paths, the repeating scenes, the grinding stats. All of that is just noise that no one is interested in.
It's gotten to the point where I'm just not going to give any sandbox games a chance any more, because there's no such thing as a sandbox game on this site that is actually fun. Every single one of them, no matter how quality they are, would be strictly better as just a visual or kinetic novel. Each and every one of them are wasting my time and 90%+ of the time spent playing them is just doing stuff that I don't want to be doing and not enjoying myself at all.
And I can't imagine that it was your dream as a developer to make a pointless minigame where the player is looking at a steel beam and a hammer and mashing a button. So why are we doing this? As a developer I can only hope that what you actually wanted to do was tell a story. So do away with all the nuisances, all the trash and just tell the story instead. Everyone involved will be more happy.