Thanks for playing and commenting!
Do you win by following the spirit’s guidance?
Although it’s gonna spoil, the answer is yes. The whole point of the game is to make “action against the spirit’s command” so tempting that player can’t resist and tend to fail.
Even though the spirit sounds like a badass sometimes it is trying to help you.
at one point it told me not to kill anything, but it didn’t seem like I could leave the room without killing them
That’s the puzzle you need to figure out, that is not the only way to leave the room. Pay attention to the stuff in the room :)