Great writing, great style, interesting story and a very sovlful menu. I very much dig the noir-like hardboiled detective shtic. No idea if you're serious with it or if it's more of a parody, but I like it a lot. Again - writing is good, funny at times. Really gets you invested in the main character and the story. Great stuff.
Controller button layout is awkward - square acts as a menu/cancel button, which is very unorthodox - usually it's triangle/start for menu open/close and circle for cancel (PS5 controller). And I found a bug - there seems to be a section when the movement inputs are ignored somewhere on the up-left of the left stick. But it's minor, and the D-pad works fine.
Huge props for mac build, absolute legend. Will try it out on my own time some time later. And yeah, looking forward to a full release!