This game for me is an almost perfect roguelike, if you're not looking for an open-world roguelike rpg.
It's HARD. But there's a learning curve; it's not arbitrarily hard.
Unfortunately to get better you do have to read the tips and tricks and believe them, or possibly read the forums for advice.
But I think at most you need to read the tips in the manual and one pinned forum thread/post and that's enough.

I say "unfortunately" because it's unfortunate when you have to leave the game to learn how to play the game. I don't count reading [part of] the game manual, that's also part of playing a game.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: This game has responsive developer(s) which is always a huge plus for me, and everyone I know.
I feel like I complain a lot but I'm mostly just pointing out bugs or weird interactions so I would understand if they were sick of me. But I mentioned one issue and they pushed out a patch within HOURS! It wasn't game-breaking, either.

Downside:
You basically have to play very cautiously at ALL TIMES. This means you essentially only have one basic playstyle, or variations on the one; it's kind of like playing a horror game. Which would be fine but this isn't sold as a horror-style game.

As of this writing Sep 2024 there really aren't that many viable (or viable+fun) build options. You can look at the leaderboards and see the lack of variety. The game has skills + races + talents + equipment plus whatever else and when it boils down to it, you're not going to have thousands of possible combinations, you're going to end up with a handful.

Advanced players (I guess I am one at this point) will tell you that you can win the game even with suboptimal builds/choices. Which is kind of true. But why are the vast majority suboptimal builds and so very few optimal ones? Shouldn't they all be kind of cool?
If not, why are they in the game?
Counterargument: If you can win with them, they're not sub-optimal.
Okay, sure. But it would be nice if the build ideas I had worked as well as the 8 builds found on the leaderboards, or anyone close to it. But they don't. If they did, they'd be on the leaderboards, too.