This is super intriguing! I think it's extremely inventive and I think when you're making something extremely inventive it's going to be difficult to convey it to the audience at first. A tutorial would absolutely help. I also wish I had more than two moves as the player, that would also maybe help people grasp what's going on a bit better. I do think what you have here is very fresh and I'd be into checking out a fleshed out version.