Thank you very much for your extensive feedback!
We totally agree that the on-boarding early in the game needs a lot of work and is something we’ll try and fix after the jam as well as balancing the difficulty so that it’s not that unforgiving early on and easy during later stages. And at least ensure fights will always end. You might have been able to spend the time upgrading your equipped weapon to max and then get somewhere with dealing damage, but I agree it shouldn’t be like that.
Very glad the creature was scary to you and honestly we sort of ran out of time and what we in pure panic made as an ending does have that implication yeah.