Thank you so much for playing. The Boss and enemies do gradually get harder over time. I managed to get a Mithril sword and iron armour early in one playthrough and was invincible for ages before I went AFk and came back to being dead. We want to balance the game a bit more with other items getting added.
The Items Stats where a last day implement, we wanted them in there for the Game Jame, we will be refining this in the future.