Like the title says, I have had to restart the entire game 3 times now because of bugs.
The first bug I encountered is this headstone that's directly south of the clock text. If you interact with this headstone, the game glitches where you can't move or even go to the menu, all you can do is zoom in on your camera. I had to restart twice because of this.
The second bug is after cutting down the tree to cross the river. You can fall off the tree and into the river, where you cannot climb back up. My frustrations of course wouldn't be so great if there were just a few save points, regardless of how "quick" this game may be.