The best advice I can give any new player is to:
1. Watch a non spoiler review or trailer and then just play without any guides or watching play throughs
2. Accept that you won't know what's going on for a very long time
3. The average playthrough being 16-20 hours is so fake. That's with a lot of help and spoilers from the same people saying don't get spoilers.
4. This is a hundred hour exploration for the entire game, all puzzles and DLC. It will be common to ask for slight hints along the way but try to wait as long as you can.

The ending isn't the biggest surprise as it's made out to be. Again, the longer you play without spoilers, you realize that the game reveals a lot of information that helps you draw your own ideas and possibilities. Solving the actual game to get the best ending requires a lot of luck, or a mix of luck and a TON of exploration and trying ideas out.

The game is fantastic both in a freeform exploration game with great concepts that are pretty popular these days. The audio is fantastic and truly a highlight of this game. This is a piece of art but it's made to have people question themselves along the way and be insecure about what to do or even the goal is and i think that is an artistic point that gets many people to give up.

So IF you truly like exploration games and dont put too much meaning into "what progress means to me as a winner or loser" and can just appreciate the discomfort of being in the unknown, then it offers a TON of playability and entertainment. Just try to get a little knowledge here and there if you get stuck and then come back to it another day.

This is a solid 9/10. I genuinely wish the community would relax a bit on the "ending is so worth it" because it's more of the journey and the process of learning in uncomfortable foreign environments to me that is special. And that is not a spoiler but just a way that I choose to frame this game around.