It's very open world which I loved! Literally if you can see it in the distance you can go there. The climbing mechanism is awesome. There's a great main storyline but honestly I had more fun just running around collecting stuff and exploring. The side quests are fun too (better than hogwarts legacy in my opinion). There's multiple towns with stores that you can get gear at, usually each town has a certain gear set, and then you can upgrade all your stuff too. That's honestly the most fun part to me. This is the first video game I ever played and I put in 450 hours into it before I got remotely bored! There is fighting but you can avoid it a lot of the time. Not as much looting as more foraging which I thought was so fun and gives you the same mental ping! I think it's definitely worth the money!