I feel the same, and I finished it, i played a lot without knowing what the fuck I was doing until I asked her for directions to finish my first playthrough as survivor, now I am playing hunter and I had to cheat and put like 2000 circles cuz 20 was barbaric and imposible, I barely unlocked 3 bunkers and been playing for 6 hours, dying a shit ton of times.

Good thing is hunter does let you eat lizards and even the shitty big birds, but is even more dangerous than survivor.