Thanks for playing! I love strategy games, but Its difficult creating a good one. I was hoping the resistance feature would add some strategic depth to it once the player started clearing out the city, but yeah, didn't land well.
I must say, I put some thought to how a family should look like, but my imagination was not as deep as yours! Maybe that's what I was lacking :D.
As for the bizarre gender caricature, I was going to add a full personality system, with different objects and different haunting mechanism affecting people differently, but in the end thought that would be too much for a jam. I settled with just different age and gender profile being affected differently which gave rise to this.