Great job with such an ambitious undertaking! The art, feel, and sounds are superbly done. I really like how the pixel art clearly conveyed what the user was looking at.
The grid based map isn't very evident, the threshold for moving to the next cell could probably be tighter to remove a little of that initial confusion.
We had a good discussion during the stream about how to handle the random number generation. as in how some systems use a card draw system, or others pick a number in a range and then roll through the range looking for it. You could also set up separate generators for everything but that might be tedious.
For continued development, it would be nice to see some additional encounters per area. Maybe not necessarily fighting. Something to give diversity to the early game grind and give the player a feeling of more agency in how to have fun for that section of the game.
It was mentioned during the stream there is different content further into the game. When I have time I'll head there off stream and try it out. I'll update on here when I do.