Started a game and was immediately attacked by a group of spherical green blobs, making it more akin to an action game than an RPG. Maybe put the new user in some kind of town or less hostile environment to walk around in and explore first. Take a look at the first 30-60 minutes of gameplay of something very old like Final Fantasy 1 for NES for an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_(video_game)

The “nearby” list of players takes up half the screen on mobile (Safari) and I can’t see my player or really anything going on.

I really like the Vampire Survivors vibe though and what I think might have been other players running around under my UI was really neat.

The setting for disabling screen shake doesnt seem to actually disable it. Its really off-putting.

Feels appropriate to ask an AI for that, no? You're vibing it, so the feedback would be vibed too…

(and at that point why not ask an AI yourself?)