Thank you so much for the positive comments! Yes--you're right, I wanted to cook up some creepypasta and meatballs hehe. There will definitely be more "hacking" mini games in the future, and I've planned for the other locations to have some unusual game mechanics too.
And I agree, I need to work on the volume mixing. Believe it or not it used to be much, much worse lol. I'll get working on that soon!
As for the pacing: I originally planned for the story to get very, very creepy later on, but you do raise an interesting point. I don't want to spoil anything though
But overall, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and if I had plushy lil' barry buddy, you would get one for free!
-Gobblermo del Toro