Love the art and writing! It’s kind of frustrating when those red drops happen suddenly without warning and you have to figure out why you died (they spawn on you), so maybe add some sort of little animation right before they spawn so you can see easier when they’ll spawn. Also there are some areas of the game where you can get stuck and not be able to restart the level via dying. While trying to find a restart button I accidentally closed the game (Pressing ESC) and had to start over. I think with some polish this could be a very good game though! Great first entry :)
My footage of the game (two clips because I accidentally stopped recording):
Clip 1: https://streamable.com/4wswgb Clip 2: https://streamable.com/s61i2t