Yeah, the way saving is tied to a moderately expensive (especially early on) in-game item is a strange choice indeed. Plus, even if Henry’s skills allow him to brew as many Saviour Schnapps as he’d want, saving two times in a row will make him unable to walk straight. I guess this was the devs’ way of making the player feel responsible for their actions. Players don’t have the safety net of being able to reload and retry any hardship an unlimited number of times – sometimes Henry will be only mildly successful – and you can either live with this or not 🙂

On the other hand, I didn’t feel like the game was being stingy with the autosave frequency. Those happen at the start of a new quest and at certain points throughout. Granted, I did often walk into an ambush – random occasions existing outside of the scripted autosave triggers.

So, though imperfect and annoying at first, this system grew on me with time, and honestly, I completely forgot about such limitations after the first 10-15 hours.