Thanks for commenting !!! I'm glad you liked the game !!!
The sound doesn't work when you play from the browser: it only works if you download the game and launch it from the folder, which has to do with how Twine itself works (Twine games are functionally little web pages, so if I want them to be able to use external assets like sound and images, I have to be able to store them somewhere that the CSS/HTML of the page can find them, which isn't possible through itch's browser feature).
I'd love more details about your back button issue, if you can give them: the way it's supposed to work is that when you hit back without being in the story, you'll be taken back to the main menu by default (so regardless of whether you go from main menu > credits > settings, when you hit back you'll go back to the main menu regardless). When you're actually in the story, you should go back to the story page you were on regardless of whether you went from story page > stats > settings. This is for simplicity's sake: there's much less of a chance of the player getting lost in the menus (a bug the first iteration of the game had), if I'm a bit more firm with telling the navigation where it can and cannot go.
I'll definitely switch so that when you're hovering over link text, it's a hand. I hadn't even realised that it wasn't doing that, so thanks for pointing it out! I'll also definitely look into differentiating the cycling links and the navigational links: I've been meaning to do that, but part of the reason it's like that is just purely the "decorative" font choice for Hybrid is actually very small. If I make it the exact same size as the rest of the font, then it's impossible to see: the font itself is just naturally taller, so I leaned into it a bit just to make it seem less odd.
Just so you know (I'm not sure if you tried it out or not), but when you turn on "friendly" mode it will change all font to be the same! It's all in Veranda and fairly large (for ease of reading, especially on phones), but I'm not opposed to adding a option to just change the "custom" font to match the rest of the story.
Thanks for the in-depth comment !!