I liked the concept! I beat it by banking 10k by sending sacrificial zeroes, then I kept rerolling and only picking items where the negative points were in perception (since it cant go below 1), then carefully built perception back up to have a well-rounded hero. I think the RNG was a bit brutal, my carefully-equipped hero that cost 5k in items made it about as far as a hero being sent out with no items, which was disheartening. I did lol when one of my heros died at 0%, swept away by a river!