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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   3774 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 11, 2025

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I keep trying to break into Captains of Industry, but the tutorial is so dry, hand holdy and long I just get bored and wonder back to a game I know better. I get maybe an hour to play a game a night, and not even every night! I can't spend the whole hour being locked out of the interface until I click the exact button the tutorial tells me it's time to click, over and over and over again!

I really wish there were two levels of tutorial sometimes. The "Yes, I've played a game before" type where it has a much lighter touch, just gives me some short term objectives and a quick summary of how to get there. Then there could be the "wHaT iS cOmPuTeR?!" tutorials that explain what a mouse and keyboard are, and how to click on buttons and shit.

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Can you just entirely skip the tutorial? I've owned the game for a long time, so I can't remember taking the tutorial, or it's possible it didn't exist when I first started playing.

The research tree progression acts as a pretty good tutorial. For most game content as long as you can figure out the basics.

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