Multiple new invites might not work since the Steam user has already been granted access. Your best bet would be to send an email to the deadlock playtesting email address or DM Yoshi here, but he rarely replies. You could also try getting a hold of Yoshi on Discord.
Did you ever get a reply from Yoshi? I noticed that the () is empty in your email. Someone else had issues in the past due to their username having special characters.
Does your friend have someone else with the same name on their list? This may be a rare occurrence of the link failing to grant the package to your account but I feel there might've been a human error in the referral process.
Yoshi doesn't really help users with issues like this one but I would...
Make sure you check that it activated to the correct account. There should be a parenthesis () before the link with the name of the account that will get the game.
If it's not the correct account then whoever referred you picked the wrong user
Got it. Thank you for getting back to me! Hope you're able to get in this time.
I'm going to keep trying to have my situation fixed but haven't received any responses to my DM or the email I sent.
I had the same problem. One of my newer Steam friends wanted to invite me to the game so he decided to trick the referral system without asking me first. The result was that I ended up with a forum account but no access to the game.
I've received several legitimate referrals since then, to a...
My friend has referred me once more selecting my Steam account and using a different email to avoid any overlap with this forum account. Hope this works!