
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 2,515 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
this game is so good i will give my friend a copy
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每个创作者不可避免遇到的自卑,虚无,自我拷打。 也许有人找出答案继续创作下去,也许有人的答案便是放弃创作。
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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
Es... Raro... Soy un fiel amante de The Stanley Parable, por lo que creo que al final es uno de los mejores adjetivos con los que puedo describir este juego. El juego tiene una historia interesante, en el cual iremos a través de los juegos desarrollados por coda pero, como es de esperar por el creador de The Stanley parable, con un pequeño girito en la historia. Pillé el juego en oferta, he de decir que este juego no es ni será para todos, pero te hará reflexionar sobre muchos temas tanto personales como algunos de la industria del videojuego, es sin duda un juego a jugar si tienes interés por estas dos cosas que he mencionado anteriormente. El juego, honestamente, es bastante corto, en 2 horas puedes completar el juego, e incluso afirmaría que antes, y quizá eso podría ser clave en la decisión de la compra de este juego, pero genuinamente en mi opinión, merece totalmente la pena. Mecánicamente es simple, no hay jugabilidad, solo una historia que contar y un escritor que sabe muy bien que teclas tocar para llamarte la atención, sin duda será un juego que recordaré.
This game is a staple in my life. I loved the gameplay dynamic and the unmatched storytelling, I highly recommend and least to say that this is my favorite video game/story so far.
👐 Абсолютная gay драма
The story is so incredible and complex that I can't draw any lessons from it.
A very beautiful game
bin sprachlos. Keine ahnung. Ich hab Sachen gespürt.
This is, arguably, one of the best games I've ever played. The journey took me about 2 hours and a lot of emotions. It is beautiful, philosophical and deeply human. I am otherwise speechless. 10/10
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