Assuming that it was properly tagged as a visual novel, If you are sure it was created in 2022, here are all of the games in 2022 visual novels.
If you know if it was part of a game jam, that narrows the scope significantly:
https://itch.freezing.top/games/genre-visual-novel/in-jam/year-2022 (1,825 results)
If it wasn't part of a jam:
https://itch.freezing.top/games/genre-visual-novel/year-2022 (5,278 results)
It's still a lot of stuff to go through either either way, but you might be able to recognize something by going through the list of thumbnails/ hovering over each thumbnail that looks like it could be the game.
Thank you very much for all the help you have given me,
I played it in 2022 but I don't remember the date the game was released
I'm pretty sure it got shadowbanned (because it had some NSFW content) but at this point I'm genuinely afraid that the creators just took it off the platform without saying anything.
If it weren't for the proof that I sent images of this game to a friend in a conversation, I would have already believed that I just hallucinated this game
![r/tipofmyjoystick - [Pc][2020-2023(?)] Can someone help me find a visual novel I played in the past?](https://preview.redd.it/pc-2020-2023-can-someone-help-me-find-a-visual-novel-i-v0-6kpyspiplhof1.jpg?width=162&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f452b87ae93d8f13bc29f571855544b807728b6)
One more thing I thought of - have you tried asking this question in the DevTalk discord?
There are a bunch of Visual Novel devs and players there, someone there might know!
https://discord.gg/devtalk
I think I finally managed to find the game!
It's called Koumon No Hana by Studio Bakanal
https://vndb.org/v25090
It's no longer on itch io,
but the devs have an email and twitter, so maybe you can ask them for a copy of the game?
https://studio-bakanal.itch.io/
