I wanted to chime in with my own experience-- I also sat on the downstair for a while, unable to go down, re-reading the directions to try to figure out if I missed anything. In the end this was the issue--I always use right-shift for >, since it is on the same side, but the game only recognizes left-shift (and left-ctrl and left-alt). Using left-shift got me down to the next floor no problem.
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I might be wrong, but I believe that the Itch page for this game doesn't have the Ludum Dare 48 tag. I see that it has the general Ludum Dare tag, but the 48 tag adds a "View Submission" link at the top which links to the Ludum Dare website listing, which is kind of helpful. It might also help with discoverability, and I saw the LD Twitter recommend adding the tag because they search it for games to feature. It's such a nice game, I'd like to see it get as much attention as possible.
I mentioned this on the itch page, but I really enjoyed this game. It's simple but elegant, and the stealth reminds me of Harmonist. The only issue that I had was that picking up a relic, going into the hiding spot, and then going out does not remove the relic from your inventory. I may be missing something.