omegaunit: I got impression the gag was that you repeatedly find out why your Queen sucks over and over again until eventually you feel your way through the game and she survives. Like there is only one 'build' that makes it all the way through and the job is to find it.
SusurrusParadox: Wrong. There are umpteen (at least 8) different ways to end it "successfully".
There are just far more ways to die because the story will change based on previous actions, so taking a step to avoid a certain problem might have you run gut-first into a different pointier problem.
Most of the reviews here on GOG do sound like the authors also simply assumed there's just one correct path through the game. Almost put me off from being interested in it, too.