Hey!! I released the spiritual successor to this game, Conversations with Cannibals. The new game is called CANNIBAL COURT (https://loomnorth.itch.io/cannibal-court) and it actually implements one of the core pieces of feedback you had suggested... the idea of "saving" your words/knowledge so that each run starts further ahead. In the new version, not only are you up against 3 cannibals instead of 1, but on each "run", you get to keep the words you gathered in the last run, so you're starting further ahead each time (there's also an in-game tracker that shows what words you played each round to help you remember).
Anyways, if you have time, I'd love your feedback on this new version!