Originally posted by Khalysto:

The entire genre of traditional Rogelike games are exactly this (encounter > Death > understand > encounter > death > more understanding).

My bad.

I didn't know this was a rougelike.

If people enjoy spending hours trying to figure out how to cheese poor game mechanics, power to them.

This is a pretty fun game otherwise. It has a lot of issues and despite all of them it's an incredibly atmospheric and immersive game. But I don't feel like fighting a bunch of arbitrary mechanics when it comes to navigating and fighting.

Fumbling around to find the poly you can run up, suddenly whiffing all your attacks and dodges. The terrian is just not fit for purpose, which is playing Valheim on.