Pressing escape to exit the scroll information makes me auto walk and I can only direct the movement with the mouse, and sometimes I walk forward only and cannot direct the movement at all, it appears that pressing space will fix the issue until the next scroll.

if you hold forward and click esc and then resume the game you automove forward it stops if you interact with anything

you automove when interakting with thinges while moving

After reading a fact, Max will randomly continuing moving forward and I have to navigate around using my mouse.

When I was on Lamb game, catching the lambs, I pressed to take the note right beside the NPC, and I started automoving.

i had a small experience of this happing I couldn't move any other way then forward

when crouching and throwing rocks game has a tendency to continue moving forward without being prompted to do so. had to hit space to make it stop.