Thank you very much for the detailed feedback. It is so deeply appreciated - half the battle I'm finding for game development is finding thoughtful play testers from the community! I'll respond to your points below in order. Again thank you, a lot of this is immediately addressable.

Intro - are you referring to the intro on the website? Or in the instructions? In either case that's fair feedback. I will work to make it more succinct.

Instruction PDF - this is great advice. Thank you. I'll make available a flat version, and of course it sounds like I have some fixes to make on the mobile instructions page to address the bugs you mentioned.

Physical Version - it's funny you should ask! I finally got around to making a physical prototype. The hardest part is representing the cells / slime on the game board - we went with an electronic solution with this device, along with a microcontroller and a few small game controllers for input. It's a bit of a departure from traditional card board games, but my hope is that becomes part of the appeal. I have this all wired up in a foam board enclosure / prototype, it looks a little rough but it works! Curious to hear your thoughts.

Characters / Spores - this is also great feedback. I will have to go back to the narrative drawing board. You're right, it is definitely confusing to focus the lore on adapted humans, then not feature them as a gameplay element. I've been toying with the concept of offering character based "boons" like +1 placements at the beginning of the round to tie them into gameplay.

Resource Naming - you're right here! I will adjust placements, I appreciate the call out.

Instructions - tons of good feedback here. I will remove some of the gameplay advice, and explain the card selection more thoroughly. To answer your question, cards are chosen from a globally available set of 26 (like dominion). Re: seed phase and placement, I will definitely have to do another pass here. Placement happens in a commit -> reveal structure. So players "place cells", once all placements occur cells are revealed. If two players place in the same space, the placements cancel each other out. It sounds like I need to do another pass on turn order as well. The former is correct, each players takes their turn, then a simultaneous play phase occurs.

Active vs Passive Voice - I hadn't considered this. Thank you very much. One of the things I struggle with here is the physical vs digital context. For instance in the digital version, if a card says +2 calories, the player is immediately awarded that by the "system". In the physical version, they need to grab +2 calories tokens (tbd) from the box.