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.