Don't look to these in-game tutorials for help; despite their initial impressions, you'll soon realize that they were lying to you.

To many, creating their own video game feels something like a far-off dream: It’s something only the artistically inclined with plenty of time on their hands could accomplish. But the truth of the ...

Sam has loved video games and writing for as long as they can remember. When they aren't gaming or writing, they can be found watching motorsports and ice hockey. Tutorials are often the least ...

As a kid, the learning process of a game's tutorial was a thrilling experience. I loved that slow-burning introduction to its wealth of mechanics, gradually confiding in me all the little quirks of ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

Assassin's Creed III has such a soul-drainingly boring tutorial it actively lessens the quality of the entire game - because close to half of it is effectively one big, long tutorial. It's a tutorial ...

Few video games are entirely self-explanatory. In the early glory days of arcades, instructions were printed on the cabinet around the edges of the screen. When video games came home, many titles were ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last week, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (yes, that’s its real name) found its way to PlayStation 4. Despite working with a smaller budget, this ...

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. From introducing them to an overview of the plot ...

Jeff Kornberg’s YouTube channel, The Dragon’s Tomb, does not stand out from the throng of other channels hosting tutorials for board games. Like his peers, Kornberg explains the rules in a slow, ...