I played the demo and had a lot of fun already:
- gathering sticks (useful)
- looting boxes
- panning for ore
- making fire all by myself
- refilling my water
- slaying & looting bandits
- spending my money for the doctor
- finding a dead rat slayed by a big robot (yummy)
- entering a cave, too dark to see anything
...
I used my keyboard, not a gamepad. Perhaps you could allow any keypress in the starting screen, not only C.
And when you start talking to someone by pressing C, then this keystroke commonly confirms already the default dialog button.
Having contact with a cactus or campfire - which happens - costs you 1 HP (out of 10). This is staggering. Perhaps you could use two layered cards? The lower one for groups of ten. Thus you had 100 HPs and smaller amounts of damage.
And I welcome the map, which is introduced with the latest posting.
Good luck!