
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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Always when I play or read or watch something that feels genuinely profound and really gets to me, I can atleast vaguely explain why. "I loved Blood Meridian because of the sense of hopelessness and inevitability that consumes it" etc, but with this, I really have no words. It seemed to be going toward one, albeit emotional, predictable outcome and it didn't. It subverted my expectations and went in a direction that I would never have thought of and really made me feel something. it made me unsure who to feel for and it made me conflicted about that. A few years ago i played and loved the Stanley parable. It wasn't my favourite game and neither is this but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this is definitely up there. 10/10
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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
Lloré
ゲームというメディアを使ってアートをやろうとした作品は色々ありますが、これ以上のものは見たことがありません。 正直に言って完成度は一歩足りないのですが、アイデアの独創性と美的表現の秀逸さが非常に優れています。そして完璧ではないものの方がしばしば心に強く残るものです。 以下ネタバレ [spoiler] プレイヤーをナレーターに感情移入させておきながら、最後の最後で悪者にする構成はちょっとどうかと思いました(完成度が足りないと書いたのは主にこの点を念頭に置いてます)。しかし、この物語の主人公は実はCodaだった、ということなんでしょう。 物語の主人公は、往々にして誰かを助けるものです。そしてこの物語において、助けを必要としていたのはCodaではなかった。Codaの最後の作品は、ある種の人にとっては救いなのだと思います。[/spoiler]
WOW
I liked it.
Stop reading these and play it. The less you know, the better.
This game was a beautiful story and I think it has great games 🥹
A very touching game. It's short, but the price reflects that. If you care about game development then you should play it.
Thoughtful and deeply personal story that I think will be looked back on with evolving lenses as time goes on.
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