Sick game! I managed to recover the bodies - I'll attach the map I ended up with at the end because I think it's cool.
I love the concept of drawing out a map, and the concept of having to reference some out-of-game documents, but I will say in practice the documents were quite hard to understand. This was partially because the handwriting was hard to parse sometimes, but also it often seemed like the journal didn't really match up with the game world. Even after finding the bodies and looking back at my map, I couldn't really see how it related to the various diagrams and maps and instructions in the journal, which meant I spent a lot of my playthrough feeling like I was just blindly wandering and hoping I was going in the right direction (which was still fun, with the map-drawing, but occasionally crossed the line in to tedious)
Also, absolutely love the artstyle and aesthetic. 10/10
Really excited to see whatever you come up with next!
(SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PLAY IT BLIND)