New player here.

I have tried two playthroughs on default difficulty now, and always had to resort to the wiki, and still called the playthrough a failure due to losing too much health or mental health.

I then watched a YouTube series of the new update, and immediately learned so much by watching an experienced player. I still feel like many of the basic ideas of how to play the game are still beyond me.

To me the game is just super stressful. I have to explore how the mechanics work, but I'm not really having time for that because any failure may make my needs go down a lot.

I liked playing infra a lot because there was almost never any time pressure. Obenseuer on the contrary is pure stress.

I guess the obvious solution is to lower difficulty. But do you have any other tips on how to approach the game such that I don't have to resort to the wiki a lot? Or is this a game that is meant to be played with the wiki open on the side?