Thank you so much for playing and the kind words, I am so glad you enjoyed it and it connected with you! I wasn't sure whether the feelings I was trying to create would come across so your words mean a lot! :)
I have definitely missed a couple of bugs, and believe I have found the one you mentioned. It causes the game to stay in cutscene mode after you get exhausted as it ends up constantly looking for people to come "rescue" you, I have a fix in place but as per Jam rules will have to wait until the voting period is over to implement it. Along with a few visual bugs causing the tree to misbehave at points.