Ooh, that's why I found it limiting, I went to shop every time so it reset every time! Didn't realize items were draining my stats, I just thought that men dying was game over. Definitely gotta replay it now ahahaha.
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Yeah things could definitely be a bit more clear.
Loosing all your men is probably the most frequent way a game over happens. While digging it's probably the skull that got you. That one is very rare and only starts appearing once you digged down quite far but it kills 20 of your guys. Hope you have a bit more fun the second time around :)