For me it strongly depends on the game. A self-contained narrative game or a puzzle game? No, figuring it out from what's in the game is the point. A sandbox ga

For me it strongly depends on the game. A self-contained narrative game or a puzzle game? No, figuring it out from what's in the game is the point. A sandbox game, especially a small early-access one with a nonexistant/incorrect/broken tutorial? Hell yeah. Also competitive RTS and FPS games. PVE FPS and platformers it's not so useful to do so until you're already somewhat OK at the game and you want to do something like speedrunning it.