Judging by the demo, the game is very linear, with almost no freedom of choice.
He could have finished it long ago if he had only been working on this project!
You're right,
now that you mentioned it,
In the demo there were a few scenes or moments where TH could add and give us choices of route's, for example- when King offers Kurt and all his Wife's a home( we could choose to not accept and continue story of monster extermination, but the king and his followers meddle everytime on the way ).
And then there is that church, where we could pray and ask for protection,
There is so much potential here, like getting some talisman from the church
( At this point i am just brainstorming

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Can someone give a nice description of Kurt's Personality?
I think that also determines how Kurt choose to reply to them.
We know Kurt is -
Kind, Nice, 50% Gullible, The type to remain oblivious to certain things where he should be suspicious.