
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 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 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 1072 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
This is an unusual piece of game. Since I'm making games as well, and struggling on game assets, bugs, expression of some thoughts or ideas. Sometimes the narrator echoes with me. But I'm not like Coda, I'll keep trying no matter what instead of secluding myself(I'm not there yet).
holy ♥♥♥♥
非常棒的游戏,它让我思考了很多事情
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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
This is beautiful, this is thought provoking, this is as raw as a game gets as an art form.
Çok güzel bir yapım. Gayet Başarılı buldum. Stanley Parable oynayanların kesinlikle beğeneceğini söyleyebilirim. Sadece Stanley oyunundaki gibi anlatıcıyla ters düşme yok. Kendisi bizim yanımızda trol değil yani. Birkaç saat farklı bir deneyim için bence iyidir. Farklı perspektifler arası geçiş yapmayı sevenler için müq bir oyun.
Good!
if you've liked the Stanley parable, you'll like it
It's been a rough month for me lately, only peaking today with two arguments from my closest friends. I guess I might be lashed out my insecurities on them as Davey did with Coda. But I resorted to play this game as a hopeful venture in finding peace with whatever is troubling me. I was captivated instantly with the narrative and enjoying the exploration of Coda's games. Then I paused. Then I got a bit bored by some scenes. Then it was interesting again. Then it ended. and I'm hit with this unexplainable feeling of sadness. Maybe from the sound of the song at the end which I'm pissed at being only 1 minute long. Otherwise, this was a beautiful game. A compelling narrative told beautifully and uniquely through it's medium. I feel sorry Davey. For Coda. For the two friends I fought. I'm sorry. I will continue creating.
touchant
游戏是第九艺术
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