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It ultimately recommends JustinGuitar/Guitar Tricks + Rocksmith as a better solution.
Personally I would agree, I feel that Rocksmith is a FAR superior piece of software than Yousician in terms of a practice tool to supplement your main learning source.
It has much better features for Isolating and adjusting speed or complexity of sections of the songs useful for learning. And there is a huge user-created custom song library (currently at 40,000 songs), as well as the 1200+ official downloadable songs. Also, the visual format is very intuitive for sight-reading and pretty simple to pick up.
I'd recommend saving the money you were planning to spend on Yousician, to instead buy Rocksmith and a ABY splitter (Bright Onion do a good one for about £60), so that you can play along using your amp / hardware modeller, rather than the in-built software modelling, which is very dated and also suffers from latency due to no ASIO support.
Or, you can pick up a cheap audio interface and use modelling software/fx with low latency. I use Mackie's "The Producer" which is the equivalent of the popular Focusrite Scarlett and it works perfectly (Scarlett has some driver issues I believe, perhaps only on Mac). Software wise I'd recommend Scuffham S-Gear as best price/performance, or free VSTs (some of which sound great). This is what I am doing currently since my amp is in need of repair and it work's great.
It's a shame that Rocksmith seems to suffer from a failure of branding, and widespread perception that it is a game rather than a practice tool. It's essentially Guitar Pro on steroids, and really makes the "repertoire" aspect of learning easy, and fun.
Or you could ditch Guitar Tricks, and use JustinGuitar instead which is free, and then throw in the extra money you save from not paying for a Yousician towards a guitar tutor once a month.