
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 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.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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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Смысл в том, что игра - выпендрёж, а вы все идиоты!
This is less of a game and more of a meta commentary on art criticism. This game is made by the creator of "The Stanley Parable", a very meta game itself. It's a showcase of games made by a fictional developer named "Coda" with commentary and interpretation about his various works and what his friends thinks the games mean. There's a bit more to the game than that, but expanding on it would risk spoilers. My theory is the creator did not care for the reception and various interpretations of The Stanley Parable and/or his other works, and made this game as a meta commentary on the nature of art interpretation. I can't say I'd recommend purchasing this game to be honest. If you're highly artistic or a game developer perhaps you'd enjoy it, but there isn't really any interactivity at all to the game. I'm not sure what you'd get out of playing the game versus watching a youtube playthrough at 1.5x speed.
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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
在backlog里呆了好多年了,里面奇奇怪怪的小游戏我懂,我真的懂,而贴在这些小游戏collection上的叙事,我不怎么关心。
this game is... i cant put it into words how much this has touched me. thank you, Doug- i mean Davey
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basit, kafa yormayacağınız bir oyun. ben 2 saatten kısa sürede bitirince zamınında iade etmiştim. O zaman 18 tl ye almıştım ve çok pahalı geldiği için iadee etmiştim. şimdi olmuş 5 dolar
I was avoiding this game for ten years. I'm glad I eventually played it. Jesus Christ.
[h1]A Strange Little Gem[/h1] The Beginner’s Guide is best described as walking through an old friend’s computer. To say much more than that would risk encroaching on your own discovery of this little gem, and a gem it is. Buy it, play it, and “enjoy” it. Don’t do any more research than you already have. At worst, you’ve wasted the price of the game. But you never know, you might just find something that makes you feel something.
I did not expect that.
有意思! PS:配置太好触发崩溃的,可以在属性->启动选项->填入:-threads 1
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