I actually draw a fountain for health regain like in Sonucido but scrapped it. It is intended to be hard and to be replayed but I get why it can be off-putting (that's maybe why titles of this genre are so niche).
Mh, the save should work, what exactly didn't work? I should mention, it only works for the case that you save, close the game later and start the application again. If you die there is only restart and quit, to reload, you would need to quit and start the application again, maybe I should have added a load button in the death menu. It was less a if-I-fuck-up-save and more a I-get-back-to-the-game-later-save.
Thank you for playing and your feedback :)