here's some basic tips on how to survive if you're completely new to the game
SAVE OFTEN and in multiple spots
eat food to gain food
hold Q to trade 10 food to 20 stamina by napping
press A to use main weapon
press Z to interact with things
you're playing as a little girl, do NOT brawl with things a normal little girl wouldn't be able to take on (in the early game)
very first tip: do NOT level anything apart from survival until you reach lvl 10 on it, dark cauldron is a must have ability unless you want to be bleeding money out your ass since it allows you to cook raw ingredients into dried rations and fried meat + allows you to make potions, after you have lvl 10 in survival and 1 point in dark cauldron the rest is up to you to decide what you want to level up but do not skip that unless you're doing some special challenge run
on the first map with the rats head to the bottom left corner of the map and open the chest with the pitchfork in it, equip the pitchfork and use it and its 2 square range to wreck the rats you need for 8 tails, make your way to the bottom right of the map where you will encounter some orkin/goblin things (do NOT fight them) instead just make sure you have enough stamina (hold down Q to recover 20 stamina in exchange for 10 food points) save before you do this, hold shift to run and run on top of the sword on the ground, quickly press Z and then juke and run away from the orkin/goblins, after you have successfully snatched the sword and gotten away from them without getting hit bad enough to drop items head back to top left of the map and exit the screen
now you're in the main city of Noer which is one of the few "safe"(there are bandits and hobos in the city so not so safe) places on the map, head to the nearest green ! on the map and press Z to enter, here go talk to the quest giver guy with the green ! above their head, go to the pile of papers slapped to the wall north of him and pick the gathering quest for the white dragon weed (objective is to gather x4 of white dragon weed you will find south east of Noer), once you have taken the notification paper take it to the quest giver guy and accept the quest, take the cooking book behind the counter where the chef is swinging wildly and moving back and forth (this will have recipes for you) exit the establishment
head to the Noer marketplace near the inn (south east of it within the city) and enter there, here you can buy magical items (later if you're going the mage route), hairstyles and hair dyes, new clothes if you misplace your old ones (they're all the same as starter so only really useful if you get stripped and lose the starter gear), buy some crummy food (dark cauldron ftw screw the overpriced food), buy some basic weapons (this is why we're here for) and at night buy explosives in the alley west of wizard equipment guy (we are not here for that), go talk to the man who sells basic weapons on the north east of the map, he will sell you a sickle for 200 (we need this because it lowers the cost of harvesting stuff in the forest we are heading down to 1 stamina per one harvest), buy the sickle from the nice man and head out of the marketplace
now it is time to set out in the wilderness east of the city, make your way to the gate and interact with it by bumping into it (press Z if that doesn't work), the gatekeeper will tell you to identify yourself to pass (you start with the ID papers so you can pass fine, should you ever lose these for any reason you will have to take a alternative route through the sewers which is hellish route so keep the ID safe, you can buy a forged ID in Noer but reloading is cheaper), follow the road to east until you see forest tiles south of you, beeline to the forest and and enter the forest area, in this area your biggest (and usually only) threat is boars, boars are easy to avoid when you know what you're doing but don't underestimate their ability to stunlock you if you decide to try to fight them, DO NOT try to fight boars.. yet, gather yellowish/whiteish/moccaish plants from the ground (protip if you press shift while harvesting them with Z you will eat them and waste them.. don't do that), harvest the banana trees, berries and tomatoes on the walls and berries on the ground, these are your main source of food and later on with dark cauldron you can chef them into dried rations (the food you started with, excellent poor mans choice for food and sells for okay amount of coins), harvest every food in the region, exit and re-enter the forest, keep doing this until you have at the very least 4 white dragon weed things that the quest requires (you will be doing this a lot to level up early on and to save on food bills / make dried rations etc later on), this forest is your new home and your safest place to farm food and a bit of money by selling dried rations / fried meat later on when you can take on boars, if you're ballsy you can try to get two boars to fight each other and then loot the meat from the fallen one while avoiding the other one, this is not very useful at this point of the game before you have dark cauldron, after you've farmed enough stuff in the forest it is time to head back to Noer and deliver the quest
there should be a glaring green ! a bit north east of the X road near the inn where you need to go drop off the white dragon weed x4 (note that the place is only open during the morning so try to time your travel there properly, if you botch it you can just press ctrl or walk around to waste time waiting for daybreak, talk to the person behind the counter until you lose x4 white dragon weed and then take the book on his counter to have more recipes this time for potions (dark cauldron required to make use of these), return to the inn in Noer where you got the quest and talk to the man behind the counter to finish up, congratulations you did your first "supply run" you will be doing these a lot in the early game to level up safely, now you can either trade for a key to the inn from the fat lady behind the counter or go straight to retake the quest and go for another supply run keep doing this until you get dark cauldron unlocked, after you have gotten dark cauldron you should go to marketplace or wilderness to cook dried rations / fried meats, the basic for sellable / long term meal is 1x wood (you get this by hitting trees((costs a lot of stamina)) ) + 2 vegetables or 2 meats, 2 vegetables = 1 dried ration, 2 meats = 1 fried meat, you only need to add 1 wood per vegetable pile or 1 wood per meat pile, make sure the amount is even you can cook for example 3 tomatoes, 6 bananas and 1 berry with 1 wood and it will still give you 5 dried rations, gather up fried meat and dried rations from the forest until you have enough copper coins to buy your wanted class gear and enough experience to feel comfortable taking on boars and exploring further
this is just a guide on how to get you started, any interaction with bandits, undead, orkind/goblins and so forth you should run from in the early game, do NOT fight them you can't beat them and will just end up getting raped, only after you have your class equipment and few levels under your belt should you even think of challenging anything bigger than a rat and even then you should gauge how likely it is that you can beat them without getting wrecked, even the most basic bandits and orkind/goblins can stunlock you if you get cocky so don't do that, if you want to enjoy sex scenes that aren't god awfully ryona you should follow the quest line sex scenes and avoid losing on purpose, i believe the maker of the game intended you to play the game properly to get the nicer scenes most of the downed scenes are very gruesome and kind of vile so you don't want to see those (right?..)
a challenging game that is very rewarding once you get on your feet and start your path down your chosen class route, my advice would be to go for the rapier + throwing knives they seem to be the "best" at least for my own personal playstyle, you will require weapons expert (needs default lona or tough lona to be able to pick that) and of course the items themselves, the weapon smith that sells the rapier sword can be found west of the inn, playstyle will be throwing daggers at people from afar until the enemy gets too close then finishing them off with the rapier, good build for when you want to have a good poke dmg from afar and not be completely fucked if the enemy manages to get near you, if for some reason you find yourself in melee range of enemy whack away and pray like hell until you can get an opening to move away, always keep your stamina high when you have a chance to take a quick nap (yes, sometimes even mid combat if enemies are far enough)
at about level 30 you should be in shape to take on some small bands of enemies and you should be the bane of boars, throwing knife's interrupt the charge of the boars which is excellent when you spam it on them since they will keep trying to charge you when afar while you keep interrupting it and damaging them (about time they tasted their own medicine of stunlock), never underestimate ANY enemies close range attacks stunlocks are common in this game and you'll end up getting raped if you get downed most of the time + you'll lose the items they rip off of you to the ground, getting hit can make you lose items you hold / wear
edit: added a basic build picture for visual aid, also the blue potions you can brew with dark couldron from 2x white dragon weed restore stamina but better than sleep and can be used during combat so keep a few of those in your inventory if you ever get downed due to stamina loss