These games threw players into the deep end immediately with their punishing tutorial levels.

Game tutorials should be easily skipped. Why is that so hard? Let's talk about replay accessibility, not replay value.

Tutorials are the sections at the start of video games where players are given a brief introduction to how the game that they’re about to play works.

But what really sets it apart is the extensive tutorial system, which guides players through 179 lessons on both the fighting game genre in general and Under Night ’s own mechanics.

Video game tutorials, as a category, are neither good nor bad; they are wholly case-specific. They can be artful or demeaning. They function as a preface to fun, which makes them seem weirder than ...

Arrowhead Game Studios changes the way players learn the basics of Helldivers 2 before getting deployed on alien planets to defend freedom.