Thanks for the detailed feedback.
It’d be a bit interesting to know what anomalies you were struggling to find. Which of course is hard for you to say, but if you are up for it, the save is located in AppData under Unknown Incubator/Escape Work/GameSave_0.json and has a field “anomalies” under which there’s a list of “missedAnomalies”. It’d be a massive spoiler so DM me on discord if you feel like digging it up / if you didn’t start a new game that overwrote the save.
I’ll probably remove most instructions on the itch page and hope that the updated version with a slideshow in game is sufficient information, but it’s a good point that it is very bad if people don’t check the manager’s office. You’d also get a voice-line in the post-jam version if you forgot to check some room before leaving.
I’m a bit hesitant about setting the forgiving mode as default, to be honest. I’ll have take a think about it. I’ve added anomaly difficulty setting, but as there are only 13 or so of them, it’s not that many “easy” and the game will prioritize novel over solved anomalies. But I think I rather add more easier and obvious ones for the next release after the post-jam version.