I admit that the more it veered into horror, the more I bounced off it; eventually I got a little stuck and accepted it as a sign to step away. Not a fault of the game; just not my genre.
I will say that restarting was helpful, because that error box came up and I might have dismissed it too quickly, the way you kind of always just click "yeah whatever" on system warnings. Once you've dismissed it, it's really hard to get anywhere at all. You might want to make that recur every so often, so someone like me can take the hint that it's important.