Phunter

Hunt and peck, allegedly.

Yes

I got extremely bored and frustrated playing NMS. I’m glad other people like it, but for whatever reason it felt like an unrewarding slog for me.

Yeah, it’s a bit like System Shock. If you don’t like monsters jumping in your face then you might want to avoid Prey.

Everyone else though… please play Prey. It was so good and didn’t get the attention it deserves.

There’s pros and cons to having a single standard difficulty. But anyway, you can use mods/editors to make the souls games (or any game for that matter) much easier.