Thanks for playing! I agree that looming threats are as good as, if not better, than jumpscares. I'm planning on building on this and keeping to that ideology.
I agree about the crosses. Those were a list minute addition and I'm not entirely content with how they turned out, I think I might make them larger and add some sort of "holy glow" on the cross itself rather than just a point light.
As for textures, big agree! Art is the one thing I'm still struggling to learn to implement aside from the deadline of posting this. Will keep working on it though.
(Loved your game btw!)