Thanks for playing and the feedback.
We will be refining all of the tools and doing more balancing on the game. We certainly prefer to give the player choices in how to play. allowing them to choose the order they do things in and offering some freedom in how to deal with challenges.
For this game we plan to keep it simpler. It will all be within the dungeon environment. We are thinking about a larger game in the future with an overworld, and in that one we would add additional features like shops, and possibly crafting. For now, the only inventory planned is the tool selection and the display of consumable quantities. In the future game we may look at it further, but the style we are going for tends to have this limited inventory, rather than picking up lots of items. We will keep it in mind and if enough people want it we will see what we can do.