If I got it right, the heart texts are the ten satanic commandments or something similar. I am also pretty sure the story is about crawling your way out of hell with sheer determination and grit. Perhaps a new loop could start, with the player in the real world, but still shackled to where they were before.
Maybe the game could expand mechanically in some massive way, to make clear that this time, its real. A grid map of stuff, other characters, a whole RPG of sorts, with your choices in the forest affecting your character build.