
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 · Poland over the last 30 days: the 21 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 12 places towards #1, and the 2,501 moves with no price cut behind them went 1 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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Themes across 1077 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I went into this hoping to understand the creative process or an introspection on the nature of creating, and while it seemed like it was going to be that at first, it turned out to be the, quite frankly, ramblings of someone who massively overstepped and couldn't figure that out. If it's an analogy for something, and I'm too dense to see that, then egg on my face, but If it's a real story then, geez dude... So why recommend it? -it's cheap and quick, and you, as others have, might glean something of philosophical or otherwise value from it. -It's not lazily made or anything, just narratively jarring. I can't not recommend a game where a subjective creative decision I "didn't get" is the main reason. Much like another reviewer said, I'd give it a lukewarm "ehh" if I could, but overall, while I thought it was an uncomfortable experience, it was an experience I remember, so sure right?
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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
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Really good story, gets you thinking.
Dear Davey
Awesome game about creation
Very good but short
Yet another game I'm too stupid to understand on my own, but I can see the.. importance. It made me feel something, that's for sure. 7/10, probably deserves way more.
Fantastic.
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