I quite liked the premise of the game, made me think about Warren Spector's One City Block RPG (on a smaller scale obviously :) ).
Stewart's tips below helped me get around (and finish the game...) because I'm not really fluent in ADRIFT, but I overall enjoyed the experience, although I was quite lost a lot of the time. That was spooky in itself...
Good job coming up with all that content in so little time!