There’s a couple of enemies where this doesn’t work, but it should get you through the trickier combat sections.
Don’t forget the DLC, and for all the praise Blood and Wine got because of it’s size, don’t sleep on Hearts of Stone - it’s the most memorable part of the game for me.
Player count don’t mean dick on single player games.
You could be the only person on earth playing it and still get the same experience.
That said, I didn’t like it anyway. I killed everyone in my play through and didn’t feel the need to do another. Half those deaths were “hold the controller still” QTEs that did not work. For the last one I even held it on a table.
Not sure how much you can monetise the news feed for a game you already own… The publisher may already control all the things linked to it. If unmonetised things are “ads” now, then the whole Steam UI is a giant ad.
Phasmophobia is tense and mostly because you can die and get no points, but there’s plenty of VRChat horror worlds as well. The quality varies wildly though, and you often face the worst VR horror of all: awful frame rates.