Definitely confused at first but the lighting effect "changing" the map was pretty cool and easy to pick up on after a couple of times. Talking to the characters was interesting and I felt unsettled with it all so if that was what you were going for then you nailed it.
In the future I think this could be improved by adding in more sounds effects, switching to art assets that fit the theme of your game (I'm thinking "spooky", not the game jam theme), and a bit more direction as to what the goal is. I did also find that some of the walls I couldn't go through so button up the player collider too.