
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.57/day in the week to Aug 10 → 15/day in the week after.
Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days Steam · Top Sellers · Poland has just 18 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,498 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Reviews
Themes across 1079 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
woah
This game has a lot to say about YOU and why YOU'RE a bad person because YOU relate to the main character and you know it
Um deles é que nem eu e o outro também
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
The game innately feels incredibly incredibly wrong [spoiler]The game feels like an incredible invasion of privacy, something we weren't supposed to play[/spoiler] meeting someone's standards for the purpose of meeting others standards, trying to think you know about someone when you don't just the entire thing is so incredibly wrong. 10/10
游戏个人风格太强烈,对不上胃口,与前作《史丹利的寓言》相比游戏性差得有点多
우울증 환자 심리상담 관찰지 내지는 게임 개발하는 너드들의 음침한 불행 포르노 치정극 보는 느낌 [spoiler] 마지막에 Coda한테 떨리는 목소리로 다시 겜 만들면 안 되냐고 애걸복걸 하는 광기에 찬 디벨로퍼 연기하는 거 들을 때 ㅈㄴ 오그라들어서 겜 끌 뻔 ㅋㅋ 정말 미안한 마음이 있고, 다시 게임을 만들길 바란다면서 Coda가 그렇게나 싫다고 강조했던 자기 게임 뿌리기를 11,000원 야무지게 처 받고 짜깁기해서 본인 음성 편지 붙여다가 팔기? 이 새낀 걍 악마가 맞음 아니 애초에 Coda가 기괴한 느낌을 좋아해서 그런 쪽으로 개발을 한 건지, 정말 결핍이나 환경으로 인한 정서적 불안을 겪고 있어서 만들고 있는 게임에 그게 투영된 건지도 모르는 마당에 자기 해석 꼭꼭 눌러 담아서 게임까지 처 내놓고 게임 내에서 함부로 그의 게임에 의미 부여를 한 게 잘못이었다는 식의 말은 왜 하는 거임? 그게 잘못인 걸 알면서도 또 의미 부여를 하고~ 철학을 담고~ 이 새끼 하는 짓이 초코파이 으깨고 위에 바나나 껍질 올려놓은 다음에 위계질서 이딴 타이틀 붙이는 현대미술이랑 다를 게 없음 중간중간 자신의 선민의식, 인정 욕구에 대해서 언급하긴 하는데 이 새끼 나르시시즘 존나 심한 듯 이 새끼가 정말 Coda를 사람으로 보긴 했을까? 경험 제공 장치나 창작의 연료로 써먹은 거 아닐까 싶을 정도로 잔인함 [/spoiler]
Потратила свое время зря на нее, оно того не стоит.
Me encanto
cried 10/10
Great experience, like falling into a movie-videogame
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