Hey, thank you so much for the enormous compliment & for playing the game!
As for all your questions, I absolutely love that you ask those! As those were actually part of the first ones I asked myself when coming up with the concept for the world & story. Which, yes, the idea is that you restore sections of the world. - And I now added a little bit of context on the description page as I very much agree that it is good to have!
I wanted to go the show don’t tell route, which is why the focus lied on the environment and its interactions. (I’m happy you noticed.) However due to me massively over scoping (and spending a lot of time on parallax which ended up not making it into this build,) the story, unfortunately ended up not coming forth as much as I would’ve liked.
Again I’m very happy to read that those questions popped up for you while playing the game. And I’m grateful to receive your feedback as well!