What I'd fix:
Idea has potential, but feels too half-baked.
Is it Rot.js? I have used it to make roguelike-with-weird-mechanics too recently http://seeing-red.netlify.com/
You can get back to "wall of text" by pressing Space, Esc, reloading page or losing focus of game screen in any way possible (such as switching to other browser tab and back".
Listed "submitted" day is very misleading: it's when the first version of the game was submitted. I actually worked until the end and last update was few hours before deadline.