
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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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 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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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wow just wow
我一般不给一个游戏差评,但是这个游戏42元 开头确实很吸引我,在废弃项目中穿行,去拼凑一个创作者灵魂的探索感,加上很多个人原因,这种随意的创作让我内心有一些波动,确实很有魔力 但是遗憾的是,这种好感直接光速滑坠了,比Romain Grosjean飞向巴林的护栏还快速,震惊,让人难受 随着进程推进,原本那种克制且高级的叙事迅速滑坡,转变为一种令人强迫的、自我感动式的自我剖析。游戏后半段那种按着玩家的头,用神秘的叙事强迫你进入他预设的伤感逻辑里的做法,让整部作品从深刻直接变成了矫情 如果创作者不是Davey Wreden,说不定很多人觉得这个和elephant stranding差不太多 如果你喜欢撕心裂肺的嘶吼,或者自我伤感自我攻略,那么这个甚至带点青春疼痛文学的感觉的神秘游戏或许你会喜欢
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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
разраб The Stanley Parable хапанул похлеще прошлого и сделал этот шедевр
This game in my opinion is a must play! The story it tells and the way it does it is incredible! I can't begin to number how many nights I've spent just thinking about this game and how it has honestly changed the way that I interpret media as a whole. Not to mention the amount of videos I've seen talking about this game.
not recommended. i bought this loving the stanley parable. the game is nothing like what i expected. i didnt enjoy it because im not a game developer. it felt boring. i just dont like the concept of going thru other peoples games and calling it "a game". its not your game. i just dont really think its for me. not my type of game
игру прошла меньше чем за 2 часа, но почему то возвращать не хочется
There isn't much I can say without spoiling the experience. Just play it.
damn
I decided to play this game after watching a play through a few years ago and in the hour and a half I played this game I felt the most distraught and grief filled I've ever felt, 10/10, play this if you're looking for a story that lingers in your mind, I don't think I can recommend this game enough.
"[i][spoiler]Struggling to come up with new ideas is not making me depressed. Low points are just a part of the process. The fact that you think I am frustrated or broken says more about you than about me.[/spoiler][/i]" Years later, The Beginner's Guide is still a sharp, relevant critique of the parasocial nature of art criticism. I've shared Coda's struggle against the narrator's perspective, and this catharsis, no matter how brief and fleeting, is something I will cherish my entire life. Thank you, [strike]Davey Wreden[/strike]. "[spoiler]If I knew that my life depended on finding something to be driven by other than validation... What would that even be? Heh, it's strange, but the thought of not being driven by external validation is unthinkable, like I actually cannot conceive of what that would be like![/spoiler]" "[i][spoiler]But I do hope that one day it clicks, and that you make peace with this thing you are wrestling. And when you finally see what I am talking about. don't say anything.[/spoiler][/i]"
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