I am enjoyable my current play, after enjoying several different attempts while it was on Early Access. I didn't want to spoil me too much so i didn't go far then, but enough to feel i was playing a solid enough RPG. Some situations have 5 or 6 ways to be dealt with, from avoiding, killing, talking, trading, opposing, joining... It seems that pretty much all characters can do "something", not always of course, but often enough to feel the game has depth.
I'm currently playing a bad guy, physically weak, but super lucky and quite smart. Being bad without being a brute killing everything on sight, it's challenging and so far, pleasant.
However, some fight are unavoidable, like against some creatures, or bandits, etc, so at least i think, one MUST have one combat skill. I'm going with pistol, and early game anyway everyone is going to use shiv, broken bottle, kick...