I started a new game, saved immediatly and while saving/in the save screen got the help/tip window explaining how to move the characters. After that I couldn't save anymore, the game did not recognize me pressing the button after entering a name for the save file. Restarting fixed this.
I spoke to Unsinkable Sam and got my kitty love quest, but the fist log entry is about me finding a collar after fighting a crab, which I never did. After talking to Maxime and Sam again, I still get the quest update to find the collar.
PicMy homestead looks a bit better now, but not quite right.
Pic I can enter the abandoned house through the wall.
Pic I guess overwriting saved games doesn't work properly. I made a new game, saved with the same name as a previous game and my quest stages and map notes got all mixed up. For the new game I then deleted everything in the folders LevelCache and Savegames.