Sorry if this is the wrong area, but saw that Void Star posted here some time back. Figured it was okay.

I'd be fine if it were just one or even two. But the fact that there's 4 reviews, all within a few days of each other and more or less all saying the same thing with similar verbiage, is pretty fishy smelling. All of their accounts are curiously not accessible.  The said content has both a toggle to turn off any LGBT content at the very beginning - before you even start playing. That's not even getting into there being zero LGBT content in the most recent updated version. So, why all of a sudden and not during the initial release (that included said content)?  It doesn't make a lot of sense. 

I'm not really whining about reviews, I couldn't care less. But just wondering if there's any way to combat obvious trolling/review-bombing (either via other developers or some anti-social group of morons) without having to turn off reviews? Beyond reporting them and letting them stay there for months, that is.

itch has no public reviews. only that 5 star counter. you should not screenshot users and make public what they told in private. it is unprofessional. also you should not call your users idiots, as you did in your devlog.

if you suspect terms of service violation, you should report it. otherwise, as far as i know anyone can review anything and just like "unfair" 1 star reviews are not removed, "unfair" 5 star reviews are not removed either.

if this is review "bombing" (3 reviews over 5 days at the time you called those users idiots in your devlog is hardly a bombing), you can relish in the fuzzy warm feeling that the bombs actually help your game. a game with 10 reviews and a 4.9 looks not as good as game with 20 reviews and 4.0.

and as soon as there is any topic in a game that is even slightly controversial, like ai, a too good 5 star counter actually looks fishy. at least that is my opinion about the matter.

This does not look like review bombing to me.  It looks like a game getting a popularity boost because some community starting talking about it, with the predictable backlash because not everybody in that community likes the game.