I think that's pretty accurate. I think you could play it "unspoiled" if you are okey with never beating it but only trying to beat how far you came last time. I guess it's matter of taste. When I started playing I always died of hunger. Then I learned that I can and should eat enemies after I kill them. Then I learned that I should only eat some enemies as some are poisonous/give bad effects. That allowed me to get much farther, I made sure to eat **all** "good corpses". I came pretty far eventually, then suddenly *dead* and the game presented my with my tombstone. The cause of death was over-eating myself to death while eating a Yeti corpse. Start over, learned not to over-eat. I thought that was a pretty fun way to die.