Okay I see !! This is really interesting. The "normal way" is, once you exit, your character is supposed to spawn on top of the ship. Outdoor. A first wave of ennemies comes, they don't do any damage and you get a reward from them, 10 red crystals when you kill them. So that normally you can't be stuck once you get back in the ship when you die.
My guess is that maybe, your character did NOT spawn at the center of the map and all this never happened. You are supposed to be around the ship, surrounded by some sort of river. But sometimes, the game makes you spawn at weird places. Maybe you had that bad luck happening in the tutorial and so... You're stuck haha damn ! If you have details on how you died so that we can investigate and resolve that bug, don't hesitate !! :)
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Alriiiiight I see !! Thank you so much for this ! You seem to end the game with 16 crystals. Which is enough to buy any perk. (first perk costs 10)
One is orange as soon as you open "The heart". So you actually DID buy a perk. But it did it immediately, and the game did not understand you bought it. You seem to play with a controller, maybe it's a controller issue. We are going to resolve that because yeah... That's hard, after that you're stuck forever. Kind of a big one there !!