Thank you so much for taking the time to play, stream, rate, AND provide this detailed comment; we appreciate it very much!
You make a very fair point about exploration within the maze. No you didn’t miss anything… Unfortunately, the programmer (me) was defeated by time and the original ideas to populate the maze with “goodies” was left unimplemented.
All of your other points are also very good feedback and we hope to take them into account in future development. :)
All that said, if you just so happen to try again (I know there are 199 other submissions to look at), the game does auto save your progress. If you select “Continue Journey” from the title screen, you should be placed into purgatory with all of your runes intact.
Once again, thank you very much for taking the time <3