
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.
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 1074 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Absolutely incredible. The level design too! Its so good!
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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.
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nice game, uniqueand wholsome locations, quite dramatic but very interesting plot. itwuld b perfect if added 'run' button but i guess its just a genz's bad adhd whim!
amazing
A short, creative and deeply personal experience. Remember, burnout is just part of any creative process. And if, like most people, you seek validation from others, maybe it's worth it to take a moment and make/do things that are meaningful to YOU.
O jogo é uma narrativa metalinguística, um jogo sobre fazer jogos. Assim como em Stanley´s parable, quanto menos você souber antes de jogar, melhor. Mas, diferente de SP, onde o jogo reside nas suas possíveis escolhas, aqui você não tem nenhuma a não ser seguir a narrativa. Não jogue se você: - Busca um jogo "normal e divertido". - Quer um jogo em pt-br Jogue se você: - Gosta da "filosofia" dos videogames, e não somente de jogar. - Gostaria de jogar algo diferente. - Gostaria de entrar na mente de uma pessoa criativa, solitária e insegura (ou se é uma dessas pessoas).
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Un fond surprenant et une DA avec un angle super original! Je conseille de le faire en une fois pour vraiment profiter au mieux de l'expérience et bien saisir le coeur du jeu. Il ne faut pas y chercher de but à proprement dit, c'est une expérience narrative, il faut aimer prendre un peu son temps et se laisser porter. Cela dit ce n'est pas non plus totalement psychédélique et abstrait, ça reste trés accessible dans la forme comme dans le propos.
I played The Stanley Parable before this and I got exactly what I expected. Graphics are smooth and good, controller support is excellent. I encountered several segfaults on GNU/Linux in the datacache.so library on levels where it was possible to shoot with the gun. The solution was to shoot only once or twice.
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