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Have you tried Baldur's Gate 3 yet? It has a tutorial, but it's pretty minor. It mostly just puts you in simple situations first to let you figure it out yourself, and it's maybe 15m. Most of what you can do you have to figure out yourself in the game. For example, you can stack crates to get to higher locations. This is never told to you, but it's available. You're basically free to handle things however you want and the game will be OK with it. It's fantastic.
There's also no bullshit collection things or time wasters. There are side quests, but they're all pretty good so far in my experience. They aren't fluff quests. No microtransactions or anything else either. It's what games should be.
I want to pick it up, but I'm likely going to wait about a year. I'm sure there will be some sort of DLC related to character options and some major patches, so I'll just wait until it's $30 with the DLCs and play it then. I don't have the time or temperament to replay RPGs, so I'll save money and play the whole thing.
I also don't usually replay any game, because most of the time things don't really change. They have the asthetics of choice without actually making then do anything, so a replay doesn't change. BG3 though it will change a lot. Just having access to different abilities will make a difference, but there's also actual choice in many diologues and outcomes. I think I'll probably end up playing again, though likely with mods the second time.