It really looks like a fun game! More and more, seeing these posts on Hive about it, I'm tempted to fork out the money and buy it. 😅
...and this happens not only once, not twice, it happens whenever you decide to explore, no matter what area you are in, you will always find "something" to do.
I'm big on exploration! And this part you've wrote really tempts me, haha!
Haha just the exploration part was what motivated me to buy it, since I'm not a big fan of the Souls saga. Although, you have to be careful when exploring, in my first cave I died more times than I would like 😌.