It feels like there are two games here, and both of them are pretty cool! The first one "debug mode" feels better to play since instead of cycling through the UI, you can just click the action you want. The debug mode actually informed me how the "human" mode was supposed to work. I do agree that maybe highlighting some key words on the debug mode would make things a bit more intuitive, but I didn't find the learning curve to be that difficult personally.
I will say, the difficulty curve seems steep. I trust that you've been faithful to the original design, so maybe the original design is hard, but it became incredibly difficult to keep the full grown guy alive. Raising the small to medium guy wasn't too bad, but the full grown guy just likes to die I guess. That said, this is without a doubt the most faithful recreation I've seen, so an easy 5 stars on that judging criteria.
I think the only thing I really would have liked to see changed was more minigames. After getting 5/5 on the password game, I felt like there wasn't much else to do. Could be fun to unlock different games to "play" with the bot.
TLDR - Great job, I'm amazed at how well this is built.