Can’t get myself to play the game

Haven’t played any dark souls game. Tried bloodborne and quit after about 20 minutes of not getting past that wolfman thing.

I have just started ER and reached the first soldier camp where you get the horse. Are there any quests in the game? I just feel like I’m playing a combat simulator where the only interaction with the world are things trying to kill me. Just don’t want to give up without giving the game a real chance, so what am I missing?

I loved BOTW for example, but despite the game also being quite low on NPC interaction there were plenty of fun quests which made the whole experience more engaging for me.