Thank you for your criticism! Firstly you eat corpses! you need a hunger gem to grant this ability but I do plan on having bagels/donuts you can pick up and eat later, Is the Heat bar not visible for you? right between the game view and the ring inventory there is a long vertical bar that says heat, if you cant see that bar please let me know! Yes there are quite a few gems like the point, radius and beam gems (among others) that grant the ring the ability to create effects at range but perhaps I should add more, I felt like they were far to common so perhaps in your two runs you got unlucky haha, I am not sure what you mean about the smoke and fire, could you explain alittle further? :) I am glad that you think it has potential and I agree that certainty is very important, Do you have any other thoughts? anything else I could do to improve clarity?
I'll give the new version a spin and see if I can see that heat bar, I didn't notice it before but I may just not have been looking in the right place...
Good to know about the food, I will keep my eye out for that sort of gem (I would probably assume from the name that it was cursed :-))
The smoke and fire it was, if I recall correctly, that there were grey-ish effects and red-ish effects and my assumption was that they were smoke and flame respectively, but that looking at them (or maybe walking through them) didn't have the effects I expected... I'll look again in the new version :-)