Taking inspiration from Bennett Foddy's Getting over it, I made a similarly tough top down game. This is the 2nd game i have ever created. Work really hard on this for 7days straight.
Hope you like it:
I'll play it and give you some feedback, but I don't guarantee I'll finish it XD I would appreciate if you found some time to try my game, too!
https://ildiavolovesterosa.itch.io/fight-the-gnome-pocalypse
Yeah I had this same issue. I couldn't close out of the How To, or the Credits. Also the How To Play looked like a slideshow, but i could only see the first panel and had no way to view the full guide. I just sorta started playing and learned as i went. Also, there was a bug where any time i clicked, it spawned a weed on that tile. so for fun i painted the entire level in weeds.