If these games were just released for free or for really cheap (like, 1 or 2 dollars a chapter cheap), while making most of the cash from merchandise or something, I'd honestly find this series enduring. Cause like, there are some genuinely cool ideas in this series here and there (for example the press the clock to progress time thing), as well as just a really enjoyable (though mostly ironically enjoyable) story.
Though despite that, its creation is so obviously meant for the sole of making a quirky and wacky horror mascot game to make money with little care that actually making people spend 30 dollars for the entire series feels like a money laundering scheme.
It's made specifically to be a product, but it's also just genuinely incompetent. And like, I love terrible and weird storylines, I do, and if these games were free or cheaper, I'd rate the different chapters something like a 3 or a 4, cause again, there is SOME value to get out of them (Probably not the first chapter tho cause honestly it's just bad all around). But when you combine that with something that was made most likely just to appeal to a market, as well as just making it more expensive than games that like, actually care, you're left with something that just feels gross