Are game instruction booklets dying?

[Frindis]

@Zloth yeah, I kind of misspelled a little there, haha

 

[Pifanjr]

I have been having a blast reading the manuals for board games I've found on Tabletop Simulator. I've only played one game of Gloomhaven so far, but have read the rules for Star Wars: X-Wing, Star Wars: Armada, Wingspan, Talisman and Twilight Imperium IV as well, with several more manuals for games I have already subscribed to to go. It's like it's my birthday!

 

[Krud]

There is also the flip side that so many games change so much that a printed manual would be out of date.

I think this is probably one of the main reasons. I can't even imagine what the first No Man's Sky manual would have looked like, but it wouldn't be helpful at all for the current iteration of the game. (See also Minecraft.)