Fantastic amount of game feel, the polish is off the charts. There's too much information your asking me to learn in the first minute of the gameplay, I don't know the difference between a connection or a reach card but i'm being asked to pick five cards non the less. Maybe there should be a quick tutorial bit that just gives you a selection of cards that would be best to learn the game. I never did figure out with Routine did. Saying all that, the games hella fun and it looks like a crazy amount of work went into this. Congrats.
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I appreciate the amazing feedback!
The topic of tutorialisation is something we revisited several times during development. I think each build we finished internally we added additional information to the tooltips and to the hints on screen. But the challenge was to also avoid information overload and showing pages of tutorials that would make someone click away.
I figured the first round is nearly a guaranteed success regardless of the hand you play, so long as you're playing a full hand. So I hoped that would be enough to communicate how the game worked. It's a bit like sitting down to learn a new boardgame - The host spends 15 minutes explaining the rules, but it's never until you play that first turn that everything clicks.
Glad you had fun regardless!