You did a good job of giving a creepy, otherworldly feel to the game. There was a sense that your decisions mattered, even though your character seemed perfectly safe through the whole thing. The story was interesting and had me wanting to learn more. Your world feels well crafted and like there are a lot of possibilities to add more cases to solve.
The art was well done. It gave the feel of early internet days and underground websites. The bars going down the screen were a nice touch that added to the general feel of an older computer. I liked different looks of the different websites; they felt like they were created by different people. I did wish the search result stayed when I went back from a website, or that I could have opened multiple websites in different tabs, but it wasn’t hard to take notes and simply retype my search if I wanted to go to another site.
I did run into a couple of issues. If I replied to an email, went to a different email, and then returned to the first email, I could no longer see my reply. It did seem to have sent the email, because the next day’s email with my results from the previous day showed that I sent the right information. But no longer seeing my reply did make me worry whether or not it would.
The bigger issue came from the reloading a saved game. Sometimes when I continued a saved game, I got the fired email, even if both emails I sent had the right information. I tested it a couple of times where I sent the exact same emails, the first time where playing straight through, the second time where I quit at the start of the second day before sending out an email and then continued, and the third time where I quit at the start of the third day and then continued. When playing straight through, my results emails showed that I sent the right information both days and I got the summons email on the third day. When I continued from the second day, the results from the first day showed I sent the right information, but even if I sent the right information for the second day’s issue, the third day showed those results as if I didn’t and I got the fired email. When I continued from the third day, both results showed that I sent the right information and I got the summons email. Since the emails where the exact each time, I think the issue came from loading the saved game.
I really enjoyed the game and think this could become a full game if you wanted it to.