My first time playing

After I opened up the game, the window was way bigger than my actual monitor. I'm on OSX and I'm guessing it didn't account for a retina display correctly. I changed the resolution in the settings menu, so now it seems fine.

I began the first part of the tutorial.

1. it took me a while to find the build menu.
2.  I built some water extracting things on the water, I got some food, some fuel, aluminum, and iron.  things seemed to be going well.
3.  Then I realized I need steel, so I tried to build a steel building, but it said "you need more claims"
4. I figured this was some kind of cap on the number of buildings or spaces to build on, so I scrapped some of my buildings in the hope of freeing up a "claim".
5. that didn't work and I got stuck for a while
6. finally realized buildings aren't the only way to get resources, that I could also buy them.

 

anyways, I'm going to go back and keep playing because it looks pretty cool, but I wouldn't really call it a tutorial since it doesn't seem to help you very much.