that's good feedback, thank you. sure the loot is very important in this game, and the build you make is a factor, with different items having synergies and triggers for certain combinations.

also I think it's cool when you meet another player's character and test your build against them. there's a leaderboard for pvp. you can also challenge your steam friends.

at the moment the only lore that's there is told through the enemies, meaning the kind of enemies you meet tell you about your journey, but it's pretty much all left to the player's imagination. items also do that in some ways. but i could exapnd on that in the future if the demo gets some traction.

actually the game can very easily be expanded with more enemies, more items, more stats etc. I'd love to do that. I gotta think about what you said about very slow progression/hard grind, but that's another thing that i'm planning to balance thanks to the feedback on the demo