I tried the door puzzles (I've seen two so far) on Hard and it makes *perfect* sense -- but only because I already know what the blue button does at the top. I also now realize I did the door puzzle completely wrong on Easy, and yet it still worked, so... that's probably a bug.
I still have zero comprehension of the other puzzle.
There are no bugs as far as I'm aware... not every space is meaningful for the solution, so you can freely change spaces that are not impacted by symbols.
Does a tutorial like this help with the initial UI hurdle? https://twitter.com/bobcgames/status/1376542769376792581
Honestly, the figuring out the interfaces (and what you're supposed to do) is also supposed to be part of the puzzles, because you were just thrown into an alien spaceship for a species you'd never met before... but I want easy mode to provide whatever help people feel is necessary to complete the game.
(However, completing non-door puzzles is not necessary to complete the game, so I'm less inclined to provide tons of in-game help on those.)
"you can freely change spaces that are not impacted by symbols"
That was the major confusion. There's no reason for that to be the case. It's completely ludicrous to assume you're straight up given the answers on the puzzle itself without needing to look anywhere else, by looking at which circles have symbols on them. When I first looked at the puzzle, it looked like Minesweeper to me, because I'm definitely not going to assume it's not a puzzle.
I guess the problem is not that it's too difficult, but that it's way, way, way too easy, to the point that my instinct is to majorly overthink it, and the only difficult part is figuring out the interface.
Honestly, if you want my suggestion for what the tutorial should say, it should just say "I need to figure out how this panel interface works." That immediately tells me that's the entire puzzle.
