Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
The Tutorial Desk: Reviews of How PC Games Teach You to Play
An unusually focused publication that reviews PC games through their first thirty minutes of instruction, measuring what games tell, show, withhold, and let players discover.
Why it surfacedThe site transcribes each opening onto index cards and has studied 41 of them, including a two-hour-eleven-minute tutorial and a median of seven minutes to the first real choice. Its reviews turn onboarding into criticism, with concrete findings about broken wheels, forced tutorial hands, deliberately bad machines, and crashed aircraft.
Continue into the edition
Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.