
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.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Prices
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 1074 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
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It was worth my time, but man I really got bored and burnt out by the end. I feel like I could have watched it be played and got the point it was trying to make, but then I'd be falling asleep as someone else holds forward through oversized huge empty areas instead of me.
Finished the "game" and all i can say is....meh. I see what they were trying to do, but it was pretty dull and repetitive and not half as profound as it thought it was. Wouldn't recommend, only saving grace is it was about 1.5 hours to complete
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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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Un des meilleurs jeux auxquels j'ai joué de ma vie. Un jeu qui est une expérience artistique qui parlera à tous les gens qui ne finissent jamais aucun des projets qu'ils commencent. Peut-être le seul jeu vidéo dans lequel mêler storytelling et jeu crée une synergie en mode 1 + 1 = 3.
está bueno
Uno de mis videojuegos favoritos. La primera vez que lo jugué no lo entendí, pero, tras el nivel de la granja de TLOU2, volví a este juego y me dí cuenta de lo bueno que es. Un meta juego que habla de los videojuegos, de creer que te gusta el diseño de los videojuegos, esta historia te volará la cabeza. Una manera de contar historias que sólo el medio de los videojuegos puede hacer, y es mediante espacios y escenarios. Es el ejemplo perfecto de consonancia ludonarrativa y uno de los videojuegos más influyentes para mí.
Wow, what a beautiful game.
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Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
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