Reading this made me smile so much. Thank you for your thorough feedback!
The music is actually one of our team members band Endocrine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IonL5jBIxbk one of the songs we used).
Hahah, maybe it was a bit surprising, but good to get you on the edge of your chair :D
Yeah it was a choice we made that we wanted minimal to none UI, since we wanted to create an immersive stealth game, that made you feel like you were actually there and UI always kind of breaks that immersion, that is why we played around with SFX, blue tint on time stop power and you being able to see from the watch if the gem is still clear meaning you have gems left.
Oh damn, I would love to say that we planned the foot step sounding like time was ticking away, since that sounds amazing, but no we're not that genius :D
I've mentioned this a few times but she deserves it! For the artwork in cutscenes we can't take any credit though, one of my teammates GF made them, look her up on IG for great artwork: @inksmudges!