Cool concept! Big fan of the art style and the passive cooperative elements.
Probably wouldn't mind as a player some sort of beginner element that might spare you the first death (idk, some animal pops up that provides you with a bit of aqua or the tiniest raincloud hovers over you briefly lol), just because I felt my few runs always ran into a barren patch that I couldn't overcome before I got to more involved elements of the gameplay.
That said, if I owned the game or considered owning it, I'd give it a few more tries; just hard with limited time to play so many submissions to power through. Overall, though, a neat concept and really solid ambience of art style and the music.