You are in the unfortunate position that I played your game after playing nearly 100 other entries and I do have to admit, there were a couple of "red strings on a board of evidence" games, which is probably why I am thinking more critical about it than if I had played yours first. I totally get the visual appeal of the red strings connecting the evidence, but playing a couple different version of it now, it seems to me that the problem when actually playing with these mechanics is that the term "connection" is so broad and open for interpretation, that the functionality is somewhat questionable and the right solution is either very obvious (like: it has the same name or location in the evidence's description) and therefore way too easy or extremely open for interpretation with hundres of possible board configurations and therefore nearly impossible to solve other than brute forcing.
I would say your game has both extremes and locking a right connection in instantly does make the degrees of freedom more manageable, but it does lend itself to brutforcing a solution instead of deducing the truth.

sorry, if I am rambling. I hope you understand it is not meant to be an attack on your game, but just unfiltered feedback / thoughts I had while playing. you have a really cool and dark scenario and the game looks great, I do believe however, that the "red strings on a board of evidence" mechanics are more of a cinematic trope than a useful deduction tool unless it has some more predefined rules.

After a few tries, I was unfortunately quite frustrated. Even after just one mistake, I found it incredibly difficult to even read the text and prompts anymore, which unfortunately makes it both exhausting and frustrating. In my opinion, the effect is too intense. Still, it’s a cool idea with what’s surely a good story—one that I sadly won’t get to experience, though.

I love the graphics and the idea of the game 😄

But I think there’s a canvas/UI scaling issue. When I start the game before going fullscreen, everything works normally. But after switching to fullscreen, a lot of bugs happen the clue icons become really small and I can’t place anything onto the board properly. Same thing happens with the maps too.

It seems like the game only works correctly in fullscreen if you enter fullscreen before starting the game.

Besides the canvas/UI scaling issue, I also found a bug where if you open the archive, press the map, close the map, and then close the archive, all the clues disappear.

Couldn't get past the first screen....anyway thematically on point, was intrigued to learn  more and get into the gameplay. Good effort on the game jam. Well done for submitting!!