
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.
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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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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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Themes across 1066 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Идеальная иллюстрация фразы "не нужно много - нужно хорошо". Очень трогательная вещь.
This was a truly incredible game, it really does a turn youre not expecting. This only works as a video game, but they use the medium so well. Props to everyone involved with the creation of this. Genuinely incredible. Buy this game. Play it fully. Cry.
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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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Люди ищут смысл там, где смысла нет
I didn't really like this, I at first enjoyed being taken through each game and found the creative process, as well as what it had to say about it interesting. The narrator eventually explains that he is essentially putting these games online against the original creator's will (this is open to interpretation, the games here are more than likely his own work.) and the whole thing spirals into this complete emotional meltdown. The way I see it, if these aren't his games, then obv it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up to put them here, and if they are, then this whole thing comes off as weirdly self-congratulatory and kind of gross so its a lose-lose. This game is 10 years old now so maybe it doesn't really matter but whatever. More than a little pretentious for my liking. To dev, definitely keep making games, but maybe just forget about this one?
Don't read review's. Barely look at the store page, this game is short and sweet, and only 10 bucks. For 10 Dollars I have a game that is stuck in my head and can impact me in such a way, FOR ONLY 10 BUCKS! Everyone struggles with mental health issues, if you want to feel a bit seen, and have some great visuals and music in your ears, or if you just want to enjoy a story, please get this game. Thank you Dave for making this game, it is beatiful and I will never forget it
Plenty of build up, but a disappointing and unsatisfying ending.
если вам понравился the stanley parable то ВАМ НУЖНО ПОИГРАТЬ В ЭТУ ИГРУ
Great game for in between, when you don't know what to play next. The narrated story is engaging and not as blunt as you would expect from games.
Eu ganhei esse jogo de natal de um amigo, a premissa pareceu interessante e resolvi jogar ele na noite de natal, talvez tenha sido uma das melhores piores escolhas da minha vida, ele de alguma forma mudou algo em mim, falou sobre coisas que eu nem sabia que me incomodavam, não sei exatamente o que foi contado aqui. Só sei que, ao ir embora, levei algo comigo que não me pertencia. E por isso, talvez, eu deva um pedido de desculpas.
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