
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.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
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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.
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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Reviews
Themes across 1072 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
wow
Love the deep dive into a broken obsessed mind.
A wonderful game, the plot and storytelling are excellent. The game makes you think.
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Stats
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
I'm not sure what to take from this game. I've been wanting to play this forever, because i've heard someone somewhere say that every game dev should play it. I've had this one my wishlist since...I don't know. Probably 2020 or so. I don't know what they meant by this, because while I think there is certainly an aspect or two to learn of the mindset going into game development, this feels to be more of a generalist on the human condition. Can't say too much without giving spoilers. 10/10, was really scary
Una narrativa surrealista e impresionante. Simplemente, wow. Es una de esas experiencias que se quedan contigo después de terminarla. Por momentos te hace creer que todo fue real, hasta el punto de que acabas buscando foros de Reddit para comprobar si está basado en hechos reales o no. Si eres desarrollador de videojuegos y estás pasando por un bloqueo creativo, este juego puede ser justo lo que necesitas. Está repleto de ideas que te hacen recordar por qué este medio puede ser tan especial.
[spoiler]stop putting lampposts in my games[/spoiler]
malísimo
it's artsy, it's meta, and it uses source engine
cool
Fantastic narrative adventure. It's only around an hour and a half long but it's one of the best ninety minutes I've spent in gaming.
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