
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.
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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This game is beautiful, and I have never in my life felt this from a game. If you have never played through it, you need to open yourself up to emotions before you begin, Because that there is how you get the most out of this game.
gorgeous. beautiful. please play it
Interessante e reflexivo
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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
I absolutely adored this walking sim. As a TSP fan, I immediately picked up this game when I first discovered it, and played it all in one sitting. I cannot remember much because it was a little while ago, but from what I recall the narration was wonderful and the story was awesome. If you like TSP, you will very much enjoy this, even though it is a much shorter, more linear experience.
Don't search or spoil this game for yourself. Don't expect something you have seen or done before. Just take your evening and launch it. I wasn't expecting anything and this game redonated deeply within me. Helped open my eyes on important things.
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I have never cried so hard. Please play this it is worth it I promise you.
as a beginner, the beginner's guide has taught me a lot. i don't really have favorite anything but this is probably my favorite game.
Game bait and switches you into thinking its based off a real person and a real story. Which is only half true. Feels forced near the ending, and really just.. flops the landing. The beginning and middle parts are cool, but after learning through the community that its all a fictional tale, I just feel kinda dirty and lied to. I am editing my review: Play the game. Leave it for a long while. Know what to expect, then play it again. Trust me.
A compelling story with an interesting format!
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