
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 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 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 1069 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I liked this. It sort of lost me in the last third, at least on an emotional/dramatic level.
[h2] 🥈 Fascinante [/h2] Joguei faz tempo. Só queria deixar meu +1.
You should experience this game. Do not listen to anyone who calls it metatextual drivel, or a meaningless walking simulator, their interpretation is entirely detached from the point of this work. I sincerely urge you to spend ~90 minutes, a small amount of your time, and experience it for yourself. If you are someone who struggles with their art, or needs to validate what validates them, you should experience this game. If you are someone who does not understand how to go on with what you make, you should experience this game. If you simply wish to understand a new perspective, you should experience this game. In terms of the contents, all I will say is: the 'Davey' presented in this game is detached from the real person, and is not fully indicative of his current thoughts/beliefs. It does, however, likely represent a large part of him, at least in the past. I will say, one last time, you should experience this game.
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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
$10 wasted and an hour of my life gone
Скажу так, ця гра абсолютно інша, ніж ви могли подумати по карточці в стімі і першим хвилинам гри. Тут є сюжет, і він дуже глубокий в плані роздумів і тем які віднімає. Спойлерити не буду, але вам варто в це пограти.
oh my god
Best short narrative story, you have to play this blind, trust me.
Coda eres un naco y estúpido, te quiero 💖
I relate to Davey a lot more than I'd like to admit. I feel weird and I recommend it.
if Kafka was a game dev. . .
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