Souls-inspired

Meh...
These days it feels like every 10th game that gets released is a souls-like.

If I hadn't clicked the link, I would have assumed the title referred to Victorian pornography or something.

BRING US DAYS GONE AND DEATHLOOP AND GOD OF WAR

Very important question: How does the game handle saving and death? (In particular, on death, can I just reload the last save?)

I hope not, that would be so boring, to have to repeat your actions and get items again because you died. I prefer games with a punishment for death, but your progress is saved (you got that magic sword? Still yours!)

The game has a mediocre score on steam. But judging by the reviews it seems that the main fault is on the fact that the game doesn't bring anything new or exceptional.
Here on GOG we don't have much of an offer concerning games. But for the last 5/6 years steam has been so overflowing with games of all shapes and sizes that new arrivals are struggling to get noticed.

It also doesn't help that most releases (finished or in EA) seem to be copycats or derivations of one another. I sometimes follow YouTube channels reviewing indie releases and it seems that 90% of stuff consists of some form of Metroidvania/Souls-like/Crafting/Survival/Roguelike/RPG/Strategy/whatever.
I mean... games copying each other is nothing new. I still remember well how - during the entire 90s decade - not a month would pass without the release of a couple of Doom or Command&Conquer style of games. But that meant only a couple of Doom or C&C "clones" a month. Nowadays steam receives several "clones" per day :|

I like to at least have the option of reloading the save instead of accepting the punishment for death.

(Although, ideally, I'd prefer no penalty for death other than being sent back to the last checkpoint.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3ka8664jY

At about 14:30 he dies. Looks like you respawn at the save point, keep your items & weapons, but lose your XP currency.

But does it overwrite your save when that happens, or can you choose to reload, keeping your XP currency and everything else you had when you saved (but losing anything you found since the save)? If you can't choose to reload before the death, then that's a significant negative factor, quite possibly dealbreaking, for me.