Wow! This game is absolutely awesome, loved all the ARG and decryption puzzles in there, and the game loop was insanely well designed. Was this inspired by stuff like Steins;Gate and Outer Wilds perhaps? I can see some similarities to both. I am very excited to see what comes next!
One bug I found: Whenever you access the pause menu, the background is still interactable. If you interact with things in the background while paused and press continue, the interaction is lost. It is only possible to bring it back by again pausing and interacting with the background, when you continue it will allow interaction again. This almost made me fail at 11:59