review access: guest-play apps rejected by Play as a login wall (empty name field, disabled Continue, a code link on the first screen): check warns for a Play app with a first-run gate or IAP and no reviewAccess.instructions; with guest steps the play-sign-in-details plan declares one entry without credentials, the dialog's required full-access box as the owner's step; store-pitfalls 73

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@@ -852,3 +852,28 @@ that fails without the fix (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
 - **Guard:** `isReviewRefused` and the edit flow in `cli/play/client.ts` / `cli/play/review-pending.ts` (only that 400;
   no other request is repeated, the same edit id), `play status` (text and `reviewPending` in --json);
   `tests/play-not-sent-for-review.test.ts` (fake Play refuses validate / commit once).
+
+## 73. Guest-play apps rejected as a login wall
+- **Symptom:** Play rejects a game that has no sign-in under "Play Console Requirements: provide valid login
+  credentials". The config said `reviewAccess: { signInRequired: false }` and Sign in details answered "All
+  functionality in my app is available without any access restrictions".
+- **Cause:** the reviewer's screenshot was the first-run screen: an empty required player-name field, the Continue
+  button disabled until a name is typed, and an "I Have a Code" link that opens a transfer / recovery code dialog.
+  To a reviewer an empty field plus a disabled button plus a code entry looks like a sign-in, and "no restrictions"
+  gave them nothing to follow.
+- **Do (console):** write English guest steps into `reviewAccess.instructions` (keep `signInRequired: false`; at most
+  500 characters), e.g. "No account needed. Open the app, the player name is pre-filled: tap Continue. 'I Have a Code'
+  is optional (moves progress from another device); skip it." `storebound console plan play-sign-in-details` then
+  answers "All or some functionality in my app is restricted" with one entry named "Guest play (no account needed)",
+  Username and Password empty and the steps in "Any other information required to access your app". The agent presses
+  Add instructions, fills the dialog and stops: the dialog's required box "Sign in details in this declaration provide
+  full access to all the features and content within this app, including premium or paid content" is a declaration
+  the owner ticks (agents never tick declarations). Then the agent presses Add and Save; Send changes for review stays
+  the owner's. App Review gets the same steps in its notes.
+- **Do (in the app):** pre-fill a suggested name so Continue is enabled at once, and make the code entry clearly
+  optional ("Moving from another device? I have a code"), never the first thing a new player must do.
+- **Guard:** `storebound check` warns "Play may reject as a login wall; add guest steps" for a Play app with a
+  first-run gate in the code (name entry, code / transfer entry, account transfer UI: `SIGNALS.firstRunGate`) or
+  in-app purchases and no `reviewAccess.instructions`, and when the steps are longer than 500 characters
+  (`cli/lib/profile.ts`). The plan's guest path is in `cli/lib/console-play-plans.ts` (`signInDetails`);
+  `tests/guest-login-wall.test.ts`.