Cool. I suspected the shop thing was a bug as I did notice the behavior you describe (shop out of stock after buying something, dying, and restarting), but I didn't want to call it out explicitly :-) I'll try playing it the way you describe, which makes it seem more like a puzzle game and less like an RPG adventure. I did fling you a couple of bucks for Ep. 1. I'll grab Ep. 2 with that updated version of Ep. 1 now I guess.
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Thank you very much for the donation, it is *very* much appreciated!
The game is indeed more of an adventure (which is why the description is RPG-lite) with puzzles rather than a full blown RPG.
I'll amend the description of the game above to reflect this as per your comments!
Thanks for playing and giving feedback!