Cool game but it's not generous enough with non-lethal tiles. I can barely get up to 4 or 5 "moves" ever. What am I missing?
Did you miss that you can refill your health by leveling up? So you hit 4-5, get enough xp, level up, that gives you another five hearts to work with. The cost to level up keeps rising, but you also gain total hearts as you do. By the end of a full clear you're working with 15hp.
Other than that, main thing is that there's rules to where things are placed. Different creatures have different rules, figuring them out can let you know things that you couldn't just from basic minesweeper rules. Look at the screen after losing, you'll start noticing patterns.