Very good game! I'm glad that The Thing That Return of The Obra Dinn Does is becoming its own genre. I don't think this quite recaptures the magic it does in narrative pacing or logical tightness but it doesn't really need to. IMO one of less good things about this compared to it is that it doesn't have an indicator that you have all the info needed to solve the mystery — when the rain started falling in Obra Dinn and I hadn't even completed a fourth of the book, my mind was blown by the fact every shipman's identity was possible to deduce by then. Having a full computer's worth of info to dredge up gave TRaD an authentic detective feel, but it also made it less engaging as a logic puzzle IMO, even with the anti-frustration mechanics. Maybe I had enough information to solve any given identity, but maybe I forgot to plug one specific keyword into one of seven databases. When I was down to the final 8-ish my logic felt sort of dubious for this reason, and I'm still not sure how you're supposed to differentiate the portraits/names I guessed to solve.
The use of AI art is really tasteful here (good luck hiring all the models you'd need to make every piece of evidence coherent) but I'll reiterate that you really should consider re-releasing this with commissioned art. I can't even count how many times I second-guessed myself trying to identify the same person across multiple photos because AI generated images don't have the same level of intent as human art. I'm still not entirely convinced the puzzle is fair, in this respect