I'm very glad you liked it! Looks like you've gone through all the main story, yea.
( There's actually also a secret ending you can get from loop 0, once you know all the secrets. You have to find 2 slate halves; one of the locations is hinted at in the writer's notes )
Thanks so much for playing, it's been a real pleasure.
By accident/searchign I even stumbled upon the first half but didnt look further for the second half.
Can't say I really udnerstood much of the main story, klore or the archeological stuff, vases and such.
I cant really be bothered to think too much about it either.
it's obvious that loop 1 happens before loop 0 for cowboy reasons.
and loop 2 was just wtf.
Maybe I will speedrun through loop 1 and 2 again so I can go for that secret ending in loop 0 :-)
So long as you've unlocked the writers notes, if you reset your save from the settings menu so that you're back in the starting cave, you should be able to go through an extra doorway to the south of the starting room, which'll let you skip to whichever loop you want. ( Although you should start on loop 0 anyway. )
I don't know if I should outright spoil the story of the game, but you're 100% right about loop 1 being before loop 0, time/history manipulation is supposed to be a big theme. (Loop 2 is you getting unlucky like Cronus warns & becoming who you see in that room during the other loops) There are some extra clues that you can find here or there if you haven't, for example, you can bring Cowboy to visit the scared guy to learn a little bit more about them; although the story is moreso intended to be allegorical.
