Totally confused about what is going on and how things work

[Giant Space Hamster]

I am trying the demo, and I was hoping there was a tutorial, but I don't see one. I am completely confused by how things work. Every time I attack all the enemies get confusion applied and I have no idea where this is coming from. An item in the shop says +6 wisdom but I have no idea what wisdom is and don't appear to have a stat for what anywhere. There's mana but no explanation for when it gets used. Armor is similarly unexplained. Between all these things not being explained I have no idea when I will be taking damage or if an attack, that states it does 11 damage, will kill a thing with 2 hp or not.

[JunK]

there are a ton of tooltips you can hover the mouse over and read. just do that with literally all the things on the screen and that helps a ton

[Silent-G]

I had the exact same experience in the demo and turned it off after 2 minutes. Putting tooltips on every single thing in the game is not an intuitive way to teach it. Tell me the relevant information as it becomes relevant, otherwise I have to read literally everything in every single tooltip to just be able to guess what's even going on.

[MarQan]

I came to the forums after a very similar experience, I won't create another thread for it then.

Sure, the tooltips help somewhat, but some things are just not there. For example I have no idea why my guy attacks twice. Or why I'm killing myself when attacking a spiky guy, and why it does different damage at different times, or how to prevent that "thorns" damage.
I think the fast-paced, minimal information given gameplay is great for experienced players, that's how I'd want the lategame to look like, and I wish more games had options for that.
But as a noob, it does prevent me from properly seeing what's happening.

I generally like harsh games without tutorials, like Don't Starve Together, or roguelite games where you're supposed to die.
But in Megaloot it feels like I'm supposed to know these things, without actually getting the information on it.

I'll try again this afternoon though..