The Altered Lands

This has potential, but it does need a lot of work. For starters, make it obvious that we need to get our weapon from the rack at the beginning! It has no interact prompt like the other things. It has no glow like the chest. It just looks like decoration. You have a guy, with an interact prompt, standing next to it. Make him say something like, "Take some of these weapons on this rack" instead of the boring, unimportant dialog he has now. Second, if you're going to have this many enemies, then you need to change the gameplay. I absolutely hated the first level, but I managed to run past everyone and get to the second level, and I actually liked it. There was some opportunity for stealth in a couple spots, so I could avoid the tougher enemies. There's also some loot hidden in dead ends to reward going off the marked path. It had everything the first level was lacking. However, there was still the issue of health. Players are going to get hit. It's inevitable, especially with this many enemies. Give enemies the chance to drop some kind of health item. I don't care of it heals over time. Just give them something. Even challenging games give a way to heal. Also, restarting with full health instead of half would be great. Speaking of restarts, it would be nice to load the game and start at the level we were at instead of the village at the beginning. I've already played enough to know it's going to be time consuming to get through all of these levels. Even rougelikes have the ability to load into the spot where you quit.