Sadly, I also encountered 'being stuck after battle' bug multiple times. Looks like it happens on rats for me. But played quite a bit to check how it goes. Battled a Rat, a Server (i think? a human-like rat), a Maid, and a Stalker so far. Saw teleports :) nice!
First - story. I am not sure what happened after narrative and first look at the hotel. Everyone hit by meteor shards kind of? There is just a sliver of pre-story missing, but that kind of feels important, judging from all love put into story prior. Only thing 'connecting' everything is that we are still in a hotel with meteor-like shards everywhere. But why we suddenly alone in there with closed door to some dimension maybe and everything is suddenly scary? Btw, if you fast skipping the story it always 'stuck' on 'a rock from space? i have to see it' moment. And you have to listen it through (with repeated phrases) to continue.
Visuals are good, music is tense, voiceover was a nice touch (even if only one person had a good mic! ;) ). The only complain I have would be that free look with mouse feature... it really doesn't seem to be needed for the gameplay and confuses more than helps outside of the battle (also it not only moves left-right-up-down, but tilts view for some reason, making it even harder to use). Probably the game would feel much better with no free look at all. Unless there is some mechanic I haven't actually manage to reach...
Combat felt really good. Maybe you can speed up animation of resolution a bit, but other than that - I liked need to balance body and mind and how you use them both as a resourse every time. 'One time use' mechanic maybe also could be explained in rules menu... its one time per battle or one time only? Was hard for me to tell with freezing after combat bug :( Sometimes I could do several battles and sometimes would get freeze on the first one.
Attack first move didn't seem to work properly. Used it against block moves and it felt that i should be hitting before enemy would place the block, but no. No hit was registered. Its shame though - it was one of interesting mechanics to me.
All in all its hell of a shame that there is such a stopper in a way (lock of controls after battle). Would love to try and get to the end otherwise :(