It looks very promising---a delightful mix of adorable and sexy, and remarkably wholesome. Also you made it so that healing and defensive skills are worth their action economy, so kudos for that. Most games are pretty bad at that.
But I noticed an issue: Once you reach a certain level, enemies too far below you stop giving XP. This seems fine, except that you can't unlock areas with harder enemies without certain skills, which seem to be gated behind spending badges---and as far as I can tell, you can't earn more badges without winning that duel with Blackjack. So I think I soft-locked myself by not realizing I needed to save up my badges for skills to access new areas, because I am too weak to beat Blackjack but too strong to gain XP from the enemies I can reach.
Is there another way to earn badges? If not, I'd suggest not gating the skills behind badges and instead giving them to you automatically once you reach the level at which the forest enemies no longer give XP.