Thank you! It might be noted that your choices DO matter, it's just that often you don't have a choice (it will be locked behind a specific mood). Ultimately though I didn't have time to fully implement that entire system, so there's just some hints of it here.
Re: getting stuck, usually when you can't pass a challenge with an item and it's too late to try to do it the long way, you will need to leave and go back to base camp to sleep, which will reset the time (and spawn some new random items you can try to bring with you) :) But of course it's possible there are places where the game just stops too...