As an old guy (63), I'm obviously struggling a bit. But having discovered the Prisoner origin, I'm beginning to make progress.
That said, I don't -for obvious reasons - do multiplayer, co-op or PvP. I knoiw you have to pick up at least one or two fingers during the tutorial, and there's that bit by the Summonng Pool early on, but I've been assiduously ignoring them and I think I've done all that's necessary to stop other players finding or contacting me. But all that said, is there a chance I might get unwillingly hoicked into somebody elses' game, or that anybody could invade mine? If so, I'll have to give it up and I don't want to do that!