Thank you for playing and for the postive and specific feedback!
Yes, I think that in an update I have to better/ slower introduce all the tiles/ symbols and mechanics. For the game jam I tried to visualize the behaviour with the animations (numbers/ dice moving from event to the food/ score ...). But it is only clear when knowing. I did not have much time to choose the music, nice you felt it made it moody. Yes, with just ASCII characters/ tiles and the mechanics it tends to be "dry".