Ambitious and interesting idea, I am a succer for space games. Making the player rotate with time is very creative to impose the pressure, although for it to work better, you had to place some objects that would work as waypoints to remember and use for navigation. In general, there are many creative ideas, like the things you should avoid looking at, but for these mechanics to work, they all need tons of feedback and tutorialization. I like the spirit, but that's indeed too much for one person to pull off.
Notes for future:
1) First, make the core mechanics function on a playable level (include feedback, UI prompts, etc)
For example, here I would make the interactive panels have a white outline and show a UI prompt "scroll the wheel to change the value" once you are in range.
2) Add basic tutorials if needed. It is very simple to just make a floating text that sums up the main mechanics. For example, I had no idea dark blobs I was supposed to not look at, I thought my stress was increasing from movement.
3) If there is important info player needs to know (remaining oxigen lvl, power lvl etc, stress level) consider outputting this data in one place that is easily accessible. Rn you gotta both go somewhere to read the values and to interact with things and it makes it too much to tackle at once.
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On one hand i added few waypoints for the player to orientate themselves and put the instruments in different places on purpose to make the player move constantly and have to pass the blobs often without looking at them. But otherwise i totally aggree with your feedback. The game design really suffered on this project and the player feedback is much too little.
This being too much for me is maybe true but i teally want to push myself with these jams.
Thank you for the good feedback!