Yeah, made me wonder how much me being experienced with roguelikes made it easier, and how much of it just is darn easy.

Like, not running into a group of enemies is probably common sense.
Trying to collect those items, probably, too. (Even if I never figured out, whether they're just collectibles or actually have a use.)
Waiting a turn for the monster to move up to me, so I get the first hit, isn't common sense, but it meant at best that I never took a hit rather than one hit.

I guess, you want it to be easy to make it approachable for people, but yeah, it shouldn't be no challenge at all either...