I’m looking forward to trying out Cloudspire solo at some point! There’s a lot to it, as I recall from playing it multiplayer, yet it felt reasonably clear to me. Here’s to hoping we both have some great game experiences ahead!

The problem is not the tutorial is on rail, the problem is the tutorial is not respecting your time, not engaging and the game design is a sprawling mess of ideas that you need to constantly refer too.

In that regard I found a it much worse than cloudspire which at least has proper reference sheet although you navigate through them a lot you don’t have too much to search

Anyway.

I added a spoiler alert to the post. Thanks!

Appreciate your comments! It just didn’t work for me and didn’t make me want to play the game again. It felt like the rulebook pointed to the tutorial as the definitive starting point for every player, even though it feels less geared towards experienced board game players. Hopefully, it works better for others!

The Tutorial is designed to teach how the core game loop works. It’s a deliberate ELI5 hold your hand as you go through the motions, rather than free reign like the non-tutorial Scenarios do. I understand not everyone likes that. But it proved the best way to get new players up & running during blind testing.

I originally tried to make the Tutorial less “on rails”. But because there are so many decision points, it became impossible to provide clear direction for all the possible outcomes.