
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
It's a really great game that I recommend, it's also one of those games where I find it hard to give my thoughts on it so, let me give a quote from another game that I think encapsulates everything about this game. [b] "I was so fascinated with the idea of him that I failed to see him as a real person." [/b]
I cried. You cried. Your family cried. Your dog cried.
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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
This game truly changed how i view art. maybe sometimes art can exists without needing to have any deeper meaning and that is the meaning. Its human to want to dissect every piece of art because weve convinced ourselves that art is only as important as the depth it holds. It has to mean something right? But what if it doesnt. What if the meaning isnt for us to decipher, what if were left to just experience art on its own terms? And what that leaves us with is, ourselves.
Changed my life a bit tho
Exceptional.
This is a one of a kind experience. The amount of complex ideas, themes and feelings this game manages to weave into its short runtime without compromising on anything is really impressive. This is the kind of storytelling that can only really exist in the medium of video games. Definitely worth your time.
I love narrative-forward games like this! The message of this game was and continues to be important. If you enjoy character-driven games OR you're an artist yourself you'll have a good time going through this one.
only takes like 2 hours tops and is cheaper than the stanley parable but honestly might be better, the individual levels are really cool as weird experimental experiences that honestly could've held their own as standalone fleshed-out ideas. and the narration is eh probably not more meta than the stanley parable but its pretty close in its own deceptive way. also the soundtrack is outstanding, did not expect that going into it
Es curioso como las cosas llegan en el momento justo.
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