
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 →
Prices
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.
Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days Steam · Top Sellers · Poland has just 18 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,498 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.
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 1083 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Stop reading these and play it. The less you know, the better.
This game was a beautiful story and I think it has great games 🥹
A very touching game. It's short, but the price reflects that. If you care about game development then you should play it.
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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
Thoughtful and deeply personal story that I think will be looked back on with evolving lenses as time goes on.
yes
I don't know what to write yet. I just finished the game and haven't sorted through all my thoughts yet. Thanks to the authors for this experience.
Absolute Cinema
I wasn't expecting this experience, I liked it
I highly recommend this to everyone.
Game so good you can't play anything else for weeks cause nothing hits as hard as when the beginners guide guided all beginners-like when the guide the beginners
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Players by region
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