I thought the game was fun! I didn't see the monster all that much, so I tried to play it again to see what happens when you die and couldn't find him at all?
the monster roams for a random interval (I think between 1 and 2 minutes) and then dissapears for the same interval unless it's hunting you. I originally didn't have this in, but I found it to be quite hard while playtesting to have the monster constantly roaming around so I put this in. That's why it appears to be absent from time to time