"After a grueling journey [...] by the experience of having defiled honor."
Wow! That was intense, this one is not easy.
During my successful run I think I barely beat the boss with 2 DEX spells and 2 healing spells, a long sword and a short sword, a plate mail and a cap plus the chicken I got in the last level. My sanity was quite low too, only half a bar when entering the last level.
It took me a while, including once when I needed to find 0 Ankh and the door would then never open and another time where I could swear a fire blocked the only path I had not visited. That's only 2 levels among plenty though' so that's fine, and maybe that's not even true and I only lost my sanity in the same time my character did, generation is good anyway.
Movement is not perfect, walking straight is perfectly fine but turning around is "unresponsive" for lack of a better word. Combat and inventory UI are good. I love the death image, including when it appears while you're still playing and your sanity is getting low. The game is atmospheric. Granted the game is hard, and I love that it's hard, it's why I enjoyed the game so much, but that won't be to everyone's taste, I think the game is overall well balanced in the sense that it's how you want it to be in such a game or a traditional roguelike. Sanity losses and gains are right on point. Skeletons you can deal with almost anything, any piece of armor will do but any other combination of one or two other items should do it too, and in general you'll be able to get these possibly after avoiding some skeletons and then get back, then other enemies is when you start to want a little more, but you can avoid them if you can't fight them (even if in practice it's often more of a death spiral as you want the sanity for killing enemies), and items are not that sparse, you'll get to find things. Only the boss requires something resembling a full set of equipment, which is a good thing, he's not unbeatable but he's stronger enough than anything else that it's very satisfying to finally defeat him.
I loved the challenge there, thanks for sharing.