Portal 2 sets a great standard for tutorials - it's funny and quick, and the patronizing nature of telling the player how to progress is explained in the narrative. Games have a lot of standard ...

Everyone has a favourite video game tutorial. Maybe it's the first hour of Fallout 3, which quite literally treats you as a baby, teaching you new mechanics at different stages of growth? Perhaps it's ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Who reads instruction manuals any more? These days even the most complex console game arrives with just a 16-page booklet. Increasingly, we rely on in ...

D igging into Escape From Tarkov 's 1.0 release? In classic Battlestate Games fare, there's an ultra-rare LEDX that spawns in ...

I don’t think I’ve ever started a shooter and thought the tutorial was fun. Usually, I’m just waiting for the handholding to stop so I can actually play. Most tutorials feel like eating my vegetables ...

Every Souls game starts off more or less the same way: You make your character, pick a class, and go through a short tutorial zone where you are given the most basic explanation for how the game works ...

If you’ve played one game tutorial, you’ve played them all. At least, that’s how it feels most of the time. But the biggest new shooter on PS5 and PC turns what could be a rote tutorial into a ...

A good tutorial will teach you everything you need to know in a fun, quick, and informative way. It's forgiving enough to let you make your first steps in the game safely, but it also won't hold your ...

Older games have a tendency not to explain things. It's a rarity to see a tutorial in classic releases, and even then you're not guaranteed to receive any lessons, as evidenced by Driver's infamous ...