
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
Amazing narrative. It’s short, but effective. It can be interpreted in a number of ways - but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is what you take away.
I have no words... this is not a game, this is more than a game, it is a story and a very personal story. absolute 10/10
Quintessence of pure awesomeness. Loved the game. Recommend to everyone.
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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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Extremely difficult to even describe what this game is. While I did not have the emotional response that I think the game was trying to get out of me, it did make you look at games, game development, and the relationship between the developer, player, and the game itself different. Just like what The Stanley Parable did. I recommend playing this game blindly and with a open mind. It's short but worth playing.
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Juegazo, del buen hombre del Stanley Parable. Una divertida historia con un lindo giro.
One of those key pieces of media that is unequivocally needed. I would not call it a game for everyone, but it elevates the medium of video game and video game creation. It is important for all those that love games as a form of creation to at least try it.
This... has made me think. I am someone that enjoys making games. I love watching people solve the puzzles and challenges that I make. However, I have been burnt out recently. I have been wanting continue working on it and finish it, but I haven't been able to get back to it. After playing this game, I've thought it through. I feel like it will take a bit to get back to the speed I used to be, but I feel like I'm ready to start working on it again. Thank you so much.
Деви иди ♥♥♥♥♥
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