Hey thanks for playing, I'm glad you liked the art! The freeze unfortunately occurs when you don't put a demon through the portal for 60 seconds (that is the limitation)! Instead of freezing it should go to the game over screen but it's bugged.
Make sure to keep an eye on that timer (it's in the portal's shadow!).
Other than that, do you have any suggestions?
i would start the player by the gate, during the 4 time playing i had started down a different direction and got lost. it will also establish that there is a timer since the gate itself has the time on it.
i am not sure what is happening in the beginning with the heart UI but you are gaining a new heart when you start.
The enemies have an indicator to the gate location but there might need to be a world indicator as well,
It's very true that to a new player it's not obvious at all what you're supposed to be doing. The reason I chose not to have the player spawn at the portal is because I wanted the player to "stumble across it" but that didn't work well with the 60 second limitation and also the freeze. It should have been 1 or the other.
The hearts were added very last minute, but yes, every 60 seconds you gain a new heart and to make it clear that it wasn't from an action ingame and confuse the player if a heart randomly appeared, I made the transition slow. I agree this is not well conveyed!
When you say a world indicator, what do you mean?
