Replay tutorial?

[K Jam]

Is there a way to replay the tutorial?
I wanted to show a friend and have them start from scratch. I made a new profile but it still skipped the tutorial.

Devs if there's currently not a way can it be added in a patch?

[markh110]

Had the exact same problem because I made a separate profile for my partner to play, but we couldn't make the tutorial trigger. It doesn't appear at this stage there's an option to do it beyond purging your save data.

There looks like some OUTDATED advice floating around that you can use the seed "TUTORIAL", but that doesn't seem to work. It's possible that was the case for the demo but not the full game.

I hope the devs are able to implement this soon, because it doesn't make sense to me why you can have multiple profiles but not replay the tutorial.

[Winter Wolf]

This is probably because of Steam's weirdness with data.

[Harmonica]

Assuming you can backup your save data and restore it okay (haven't tried myself), can you not just disable steam cloud saving and clear out your saves to create a fresh install? (or does the game spot your steam achievements and not let you re-run the tutorial?).

But yes ability to optionally run the tutorial when changing to a new profile seems like a must.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Assuming you can backup your save data and restore it okay (haven't tried myself), can you not just disable steam cloud saving and clear out your saves to create a fresh install? (or does the game spot your steam achievements and not let you re-run the tutorial?).

But yes ability to optionally run the tutorial when changing to a new profile seems like a must.

Nah that works, it just shouldn't really be needed.
But remember, it's a one man developer, he's working his butt off fixing things but there's a balance between how easy some things are to fix vs how much time they take. Adding new UI stuff to the main menu to re-enable the tutorial is more work than other things while less useful for the majority of players than a line of code fixing a game breaking exploit (eternal luchador) or fixing saves not working at all for a group of people with particular PC setups.
Same reason my crappy temporary mod to change/remove backgrounds for people with motion sickness doesn't have a menu toggle but just applies the version you decide to install, adding menus isn't easy in this game.

[K Jam]

Originally posted by Winter Wolf:

This is probably because of Steam's weirdness with data.

Not a Steam issue, just how the game is currently. I play on Switch.

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Nah that works, it just shouldn't really be needed.

But remember, it's a one man developer, he's working his butt off fixing things but there's a balance between how easy some things are to fix vs how much time they take. Adding new UI stuff to the main menu to re-enable the tutorial is more work than other things while less useful for the majority of players than a line of code fixing a game breaking exploit (eternal luchador) or fixing saves not working at all for a group of people with particular PC setups.
Same reason my crappy temporary mod to change/remove backgrounds for people with motion sickness doesn't have a menu toggle but just applies the version you decide to install, adding menus isn't easy in this game.

I keep telling people to give LocalThunk a break but no one listened lol.

But TBH I'm kinda sad that I couldn't replay the tutorial because I played the demo and even though unlocks weren't carried over, the game "remembers" that I finished the tutorial and won't let me play it again. Suck to lose the "first time" feeling on the full version just because you played the demo, but not something I'd complain about.

[MyO]

Found a way to drop back to tutorial, though I'm not sure which step worked.

- Disable Steam Cloud saves for the game
BACKUP WHAT YOU DELETE
- Find and remove the game's folders in AppData/Local and AppData/Roaming
- In a subfolder in your /userdata folder, find and remove 2379780.json
- In your Steam installation directory, in /steamapps subfolder, find and remove appmanifest_2379780.acf
BACKUP WHAT YOU DELETE

[Lexyvil]

Apparently not being able to play the tutorial again is still an issue when I let others try the game.

I found out the only file you need to delete to the tutorial work again is the "settings.jkr" file in AppData\Roaming\Balatro.

Just make sure cloud sync is off or it will bring old the file back.

[AFSilver]

Originally posted by Lexyvil:

Apparently not being able to play the tutorial again is still an issue when I let others try the game.

I found out the only file you need to delete to the tutorial work again is the "settings.jkr" file in AppData\Roaming\Balatro.

Just make sure cloud sync is off or it will bring old the file back.

I can confirm that this method works.