Very cool idea! Having that smoke trail is awesome to plan the routes. Would be nice if one could also see the jump timing in there.
The AI kept running out of patience. Doing the chores is a bit tedious. Maybe having different mechanics to complete a chore would be more engaging (you have that for weight lifting for example).
I could not figure out what to do.
Nice interpretation of the theme. When you lose the game, it would be good to see which metric has failed.