Thank you for the kind words! And that's good feedback on the menu, and I'll definitely do more testing on the controller.
Regarding the lore, you are 100% right. It's funny because I feel like I have the story down in my mind. And in an early version I just had a lore dump for the first five minutes, but that didn't go over well. So I scaled that back, but I still haven't figured out a way to integrate the story into the game in an engaging way. Turns out that's really hard, even though Valve makes it look easy. I guess they're pretty good at making games over there!
Anyway, thanks again for taking the time to play the game and give feedback.