
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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Every market we collect.
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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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Fire writing, absolute classiccc
A fascinating game, highly recommend it. I related heavily to the themes within the story. I find myself wanting to derive meaning from it, and wonder if that's a obvious mistake.
This is a tough one for me to rate because while I can't say I personally enjoyed the game, I do appreciate the earnest sincerity with which it is made and the questions it raises. It succeeds as a piece of emotionally vulnerable interactive art.
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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
Good daim, too good for to little time, totally recomended
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After finishing The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, I began searching for a similar experience. I came across this game, saw the trailer, and decided to give it a go. I must say, it turned out to be something I most definitely won’t forget for a long time. The graphics really hit hard for me—I loved the architecture, the various chapters, and their immersive atmospheres. Rich storytelling makes the expierence even more Riveting. The price may seem a little high, especially when compared to The Stanley Parable. I make this comparison because both games are similar in nature and are classified as narration, walking simulators on Steam. Taking this into consideration, the price difference between the two isn’t significant, yet The Beginner’s Guide is comparatively expensive for what it offers. The Stanley Parable is packed with far more hours of playtime, explores a wider range of topics and moral ideas rather than focusing on a single story, and is overall a much larger experience. *The Stanley Parable* is packed with far more hours of playtime, explores a wider range of topics and moral ideas rather than focusing on a single story, and is overall a much larger experience. Most importantly, The Stanley Parable features multiple choice routes and endings—it’s basically what makes the game unique at its core. In contrast, The Beginner’s Guide follows a singular storyline with only one ending that you progress through. Nevertheless, The Beginner’s Guide is a wonderful experience in its own right, and when discounted by 50%, I find it absolutely worth the price. Even on its own, it is an incredibly enjoyable and emotionally affecting game. (and yes i used an em dash)
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《新手指南》很难用几句话来总结,里面既包含了一个独立游戏创作者对其在意外成功之后与朋友闹掰的道歉,也包含游戏创造者的自我展示欲望与玩家解读的永恒尝试所形成的对立的讨论,还有对于游戏这一本质的一定思考。玩完之后感慨良多,但是又有些说不出来。
Surreal and brilliant. Glad I finally got to this gem!
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