Playtest report
Bricks & Bribes
by GriffinBuilds Studio · Playtest the tutorial of a real-estate strategy game
- Play time
- 30 minStated by the tester
- Played
- Outside the Arcade
- Sent
- Oct 15, 2026
- Accepted
- Oct 15, 2026Report 5 of 5 in this round
How much do you usually play strategy or tycoon games?
Very often and used to play games like Zeus: Master of Olympus and he variants Pharaoh and Caesar as a kid
What did the tutorial teach you clearly, and what did you have to work out on your own?
I got stuck in the Mortgage tutorial since it wasn't clear enough and it gets frustrating
Where did you first get confused or stuck? What were you trying to do at that moment?
I got stuck in the Mortgage tutorial since it wasn't clear enough and it gets frustrating. Selling doesn't help, and there's no initial cash at all to bid and you cannot rebid, so it gets stuck on a loop not letting you do more than 1 turn despite saying you can go up to 6. If possible make it a more handholding guidance for the first actions of each tutorial as I can see people could get frustrated over it not being straightforward, essentially 1 turn with highlights like at the very start and then the rest on our own
When you built or upgraded something, did you understand how much rent it would bring and why?
Upgrading and downgrading should show a preview tooltip when doing so, you're doing guesswork during those
Was there anything on screen you didn't understand, such as an icon, a number or a panel?
As I said, I tried many times and kept getting stuck in the mortgage tutorial, it got frustrating, even building, selling, getting more mortgages or payting off 1 doesn't work you get stuck in the loop
After the tutorial, would you want to keep playing? Why or why not?
If the situtaion is fixed yes, but even with cash in hand and enough cash flow isn't working on the mortgages tutorial to get past turn 1
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