Very cool idea, I like that dying does not reset the map progress. The "It is ..." text added a lot of suspense to the play, especially as it would change colors the closer It got. Audio was good and the different sliders added in helped to dial it in for me.
Two things I struggled with was the want to just leave the map open, so text on the screen kept getting cut off, and struggling with marking where I wanted to on the map. It felt like the map squares were a little too small to mark the map and items I found in it the way I wanted to