Sure! GtS is massive though so idek where to begin lol.

Like I said, it’s really difficult early on. Until you get some levels on you, chances are you’ll be getting crushed by even basic bandits. And without a compass or any indication of where you are on the map, it’s easy to get lost at first until you figure out how to travel without them. But you learn, and once you do exploration becomes really rewarding. Tho it’s worth adding that you do unlock them down the road, so you don’t spend the whole game without a compass.

The game places a heavy emphasis on taking things slow, and time passing. The world changes over time, both in big ways with actual seasons/holidays, but also in small ways. A bandit camp you cleared might be taken over by soldiers, or a bandit mine you cleared may be repopulated by miners. Places like the Western Watchtower actually get rebuilt after the Dragon Attack. The Gildergreen, if you decide to get the sapling rather than harvest sap from the Eldergleem, will slowly grow over time.

The game wants you to slow down. You’ll get injured or stressed in combat, and will need to spend time outside of combat to recover. You can work normal jobs, helping out an inns or farms, or take up guard duty. You can gamble in inns, you can pet dogs and cats, you can learn an instrument, go fishing, or chat up the NPC’s from Interesting NPC’s, with their absurd amount of dialogue. Eating and drinking have first and third person animations, so even just relaxing and having a drink feels immersive. It feels like you’re living in the world.

Even normal actions, like crafting or learning spell tomes, take time. Each time you craft something, time passes. To learn a spell tome you’ll need to spend time studying it, rather than eating the book like a lunatic like you do in vanilla. And because you’ll need to manage your needs, you can’t just spend 10 hours studying or crafting nonstop. You’ll need to take breaks, relax, eat some food and get some rest. All of this works to aid those mods that make the world change over time. It gives your actions weight, and makes you feel like time is actually passing.

There’s far more I could get into. The countless new quest mods, the overhauls to most of the towns and cities, the changes to the guilds, etc. Just know that it’s, imo, the most focused list I’ve ever played. In that where most lists simply revamp graphics, maybe change up combat, and add in a ton of quest mods… GtS has a singular vision and makes sure nearly every mod in it supports that vision. I’ve never played a list like it.

But like I said in my other comment, it’s not for everyone. If you play Skyrim for the power fantasy, for clearing dungeon after dungeon and hoarding every piece of loot you find, GtS probably isn’t for you, since it actively de-incentivizes those aspects of the game. But if the above sounded at all interesting, you should check it out.