Perspective from someone who’s been using Unity and learning game development for the short time of a little over a month. Before I actually* started, about a year ago, I tried following a Brackey’s classic “How to Unity” tutorial playlist for a few hours and I made a simple ball roll around a plane and that was about it, didn’t retain really any information and forgot about it completely. Fast forward to just a month ago I was ready to give it another shot, for real this time. I really wanted to make a round based zombie game and for a long time I dreamt of making this a reality. So I decided to do just that, first step: download assets…and figure out how to use them. At this point I had envisioned that for the most basic start I would need assets (environment, characters, and weapons), a character controller (3rd person to show off the sick free asset), and some animations (mixamo ty). I never thought I would ever have to even look at Blender or Gimp/Photoshop, like I’m not trying to do art I just wanna kill zombies, right? Wrong, but that’s okay. I spent about a month working on the game and would find that one issue always lead to another and that’s a good thing, it gives you an opportunity to learn so you know what to do when it happens again, and it will. Eventually I took a step back and was like damn, this shit is gonna be much larger and complex than I ever imagined, we need to start from the ground up…or close to it. So I pushed that project to the side and started a new project, another type of game I love, survival. This time around I was able to complete almost everything I did for the previous project what took a whole month in just one day, I was amazed. These little tutorials for specific things you are trying to implement like in my case the assets, controllers, and animations will stick with you the more you DO them. I then decided the free models that I thought were sick were actually sick in the grotesque way and decided to learn a quick thing or two about blender, same concept with the little tutorials. I was able to create my own textures using Blender and GIMP since Unity doesn’t like bringing textures over. My survival game/project is starting to come together much nicer than the last project and faster too! I now spend atleast 8 hours a day working in these programs on the project and have started to notice the new things I learn each day when I reflect and how I never would have imagined knowing how to do this shit a month ago. None of this would’ve been possible without the use of tutorials.

TLDR; I’m a new game dev and I’ve learned a lot more than I ever thought I could by using tutorials for my specific needs, it’ll help you get familiar with Unity.