try the orienteer mode, it's much closer to a "game in a wide term", and I found it to be very fun to learn how to navigate, I would also recommend you change the settings from "3m" to "1m" in "stride distance" (which determines how far you go with a single "forward step", there was a lot of text to read before I understood any of what I was seeing on the screen which is a very big barrier of entry, but ultimatly there is fun to be found in it.
I think that if you like the feeling of getting lost in metroidvanias, or even more specifically, orienting yourself on hollow knight without the compass charm, you can have fun playing the orienteer mode. I also didn't have much fun playing in the "explorer" mode, it was just too open ended for my tastes, but the orientieer mode, as it states in one of the PDFs provided, it aims to simulates the experience you have in real life on, IIRC, competitions of how to orient yourself.