Most of the stuff I play off Itch has either had save breaks be a regular risk or is short enough / non-linear enough that making new saves to see stuff isn’t uncommon. Even with the story and roleplay aspects, an unskippable 40 minute intro would be a slog in them.
I wrote the comment around 45 minutes in when I was still expected another of those games. My edit then came 8 hours after that when I realized those assumptions don’t apply here.