
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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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 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 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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As much as I liked Stanley Parable, this game feels more like an interactive love letter, rather than a ground-breaking concept piece. Unless the concept is sadness and depression, then I suppose it's on brand, right enough. You don't actually have to use your brain to play it, you just walk through a guided tour of inconsequential interactions that gradually untangle an unmotivated game developer's psyche. At times there are genuinely interesting experiences, particularly playing the broken, unfinished games early on. Those things give Beginner's Guide a similar meta framework as SP, but it's mostly cosmetic. it doesn't really feel any different than most walking simulators, albeit far more story-driven. I'm just not sure who is supposed to relate to this love letter because it isn't a particularly common predicament. Even if you know a self-destructive artist that probably can, the story lands on a completely different foot. But whatever, if you're just want a sad story that lasts about 3 hours, get it if it's on sale. That's really all it is.
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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.
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favorite game oat, my comfort game
Rd ima rc´rtormvos vp,p momhims pyts <3
Honestly I don't find that kind of expression moving. The story was a bit intriguing but I guess it wasn't meant to me. I believe the author wanted to spill their thoughts into the game. Unfortunately for me either it was too shallow or just not interesting enough.
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
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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One of the most powerful experiences I've had with a game. Go into it as blindly as possible.
truly one of the most unique experiences I've had. The media someone creates is subject to different views, but at the end of the day, how or why someone made what they made, is just how it's made to be, and it can never be wrong.
지독하게 외롭고 슬프고 제멋대로고 엄격하고 사랑하지 못하는 창작자의 편지 ㅠㅠ
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