I think your controls are intuitive enough for no tutorial, and that's highly commendable! I think what tipped me off to being able to move was seeing my knight enter my FoV and then realizing there were stuff to do! It gave me neopets game vibes-- but like obviously a million times better. Just hella nostaglia for those tower defense games!
I'm so bad at words haha what I meant was it felt like the animation when the seed nyooms in from existence (Not the loading bar, that felt right to me!) didn't change with the fast forward, but I could just be wrong! In the way that it felt!
Amazing work!!