
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 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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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[h2] 🥈 Fascinante [/h2] Joguei faz tempo. Só queria deixar meu +1.
"[i][spoiler]Struggling to come up with new ideas is not making me depressed. Low points are just a part of the process. The fact that you think I am frustrated or broken says more about you than about me.[/spoiler][/i]" Years later, The Beginner's Guide is still a sharp, relevant critique of the parasocial nature of art criticism. I've shared Coda's struggle against the narrator's perspective, and this catharsis, no matter how brief and fleeting, is something I will cherish my entire life. Thank you, [strike]Davey Wreden[/strike]. "[spoiler]If I knew that my life depended on finding something to be driven by other than validation... What would that even be? Heh, it's strange, but the thought of not being driven by external validation is unthinkable, like I actually cannot conceive of what that would be like![/spoiler]" "[i][spoiler]But I do hope that one day it clicks, and that you make peace with this thing you are wrestling. And when you finally see what I am talking about. don't say anything.[/spoiler][/i]"
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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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I... Wow... I cannot recommend this game enough
中评。作品在概念上很值得被认真对待,可惜在体验上没有打动我,只觉得心累。一次次被送到新的场景,需要重新适应,需要阅读那些莫名其妙的对话,还要做出回应。这都在持续消耗精力,但这些投入几乎没有意义。无论怎么选,都不影响后续,只能/只需按着既定流程走完。 它高明的地方在于,它建立的不只是作品与玩家之间的关系,而是把创作者本人、作品、评判者和玩家一起拉进来,形成一种多方关系。这确实是一个很聪明的切口。只是对我来说,它始终有些形式大于内容。主题与形式有关联,不代表形式本身就是高明的。我理解它意图通过这种方式,去模拟那种对他人或作品的过度解读、自说自话和误读感。它显然不只是想“讲”这个主题,而是想让玩家亲身经历那种滞涩和徒劳。但我依然不认为这需要让玩家花两个小时的重复劳动来传达。
Franchement... Marcher à 1 km/h dans des couloirs immenses pendant 2h en écoutant une histoire déprimante et sans intérêt... J'ai perdu mon temps. Désolé pour cette critique, mais ce jeu surf sur le succès de Stanley Parable, que j'avais adoré. Bravo pour la douille, mais je ne me ferai plus avoir.
This game seems to always call me back about every three years or so, with my first playthrough being around 2017. Throughout my playthroughs, I've continued to find more and more meaning in it. The Beginner's Guide will forever be such a special game to me, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Люблю tsp и эту игру теперь тоже. Я плакала из-за игры, ОПЯТЬ! Короче, это нужно чувствовать, да, на один раз, но всё равно она оч классная, топ 1 10/10 #люблюtsp
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look, just buy and play the game.
The game takes time to build up, so you really need to stick with it for a bit, as it can feel like you're dropped into level after boring level, but pay attention to the narrative, as the game turns into an absolute rollercoaster. Great storyline, realizations, and well acted by the narrator. I highly recommend this!
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