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I completely finished the game after about 70h, only to come back to the new DLC and find maybe another 70h ahead of me.
10/10 will grind every unlock again

First and foremost I would suggest to watch some gameplay videos if you're indecisive whether you should buy the game or not. Do not base your decision solely on this review, bear in mind that this is only my point of view, which may not correlate with your preferences. Also minor spoiler alert: though I'll talk about some events and outcome, I won't tell any specifics, but be warned anyway.

So let me start with giving you some inside on my first few runs. (reminder: I saw some comments claiming you should play on ironman mode so I gave it a try)
After pretty much completing and leaving the start isle I ran into a canibal cult trying to eat me. Knowing that this could be my end I decided to join them and they let me leave. A bit offset by the harshness of the immediate consequences of a random event I laid low and only favoured safe looking places. That went quite well for a time, but I felt weak af. I feared combat since I nearly died right of the start of the game but some times later I gave it a try once again: got smashed.
Ok, I thought, that went horrible, let's try a different approach. So here we go, seconds run: got killed by a fire ball in a random event with no chance to survive. Cool, now I'm a bit frustated, but let's try again. After being enslaved (in a random event), my character fought in an arena. I fled once I had the chance, only finding myself with no gear in an area, where everything would kill me. That happend one more time, when I failed to convince a bunch of townsmen that the barkeep was in fact the evil guy. Was beaten up by them down to 1 HP with (once again) no gear in the middle of nowhere.
Now the frustration got big enough that I tried to lower the difficulty, maybe saving and reloading helps in keeping the worst outcome at bay? Well yes but it made the game worse in a way. Yes you can repeat events, but does the win feel deserved? Certainly not.
On this point I tried to find the most secure path with slow but steady advance in the story. Got easier after I found an infinite money exploit and I could afford any wishable item, still beeing smashed in random events. I remember (in a different run) having all key items for one specific event and going around like 10 times between this spot and the adjacend until I finally got a decent dice roll so I could progress to the event I came for.

Apart from that, there are still parts about this game I like. I enjoyed the reading, thou it gets repetitive after the first encounter of an event. The artwork looks amazing, ngl I truely do love this style. I heard the game is based on a book series, sadly I haven't read them but that might be a reason to buy the game if you enjoyed the books.
I would still not recomend this game, unless you enjoy TRUE randomness as core part of a game. Yes you can favour the outcome in a certain direction, but sadly not through clever decisions (at least I haven't found any where that'd be the case) but solely through a dice roll. Best I could explain how this felt to me is like that:
DM describing the surrounding in an epic manner
Player: I want to go to XY
DM: ok, roll an ability check for me
Player: 10
DM: you die