
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 2,515 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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I cried when I had to move on from cleaning the cabin. You can't stay in the dark forever.
-"это шикарно?" спросите вы. я отвечу : -"несомненно!" (примечание: да, это сплошной симулятор ходьбы, и тем кто любит движ и какие либо задачи в играх она точно не зайдет, но вот такие как я- ценители лиминальности и синглплея с глубоким смыслом точно оценят)
这是一款很棒的游戏 但它并不是一个好"游戏" 需要一定的受众才能享受它带来的乐趣 创作者Davey是元叙事的天才 跳出故事讲本身的meta元素贯穿全文 比起《新手指南》我更推荐Davey的前作《史丹利的寓言》这是一款真正的好游戏 《新手指南》是一款可玩性不高有些人可能会理解为说教的游戏 这确实是一个美妙的哲学思考故事 但不会带给所有人快乐和成就感
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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
The story surpasses much of the movies we see now. Definitely play it.
我们对各种事物的解读只是自我的投射亦或是事物整体的一部分,总是有更宏大或隐蔽的事物与情感的。
Just like what the title state, this is a beginner's guide. Lean more toward emotional experience rather than like usual games. Feel like a museum. good
Заставляет задуматься... В конце пустил скупую мужскую слезу.
Al igual que las obras de Charlie Kaufman o Don Hertzsfeldt tiene un poder increíblemente personal que juega con la relación entre obra y su creador, la ficción postmoderna aquí juega con recursos más modernos aun gracias al medio del videojuego. La escritura e estilo personal de Davey Wreden son un placer de ver, sin embargo el gameplay es muy limitado reduciéndose solo a una exploración de escenarios, la corta duración del juego y la narración que justifica estas mecánicas hacen que la experiencia no se vea muy lastrada por esto. Es un juego indie indispensable que muestra la infinita capacidad de este medio.
Maybe you like making prison games. Maybe you don’t. But nevertheless your creativity has worth, and sometimes what you make, it speaks to you, but you can’t speak for them… it speaks to them in vastly different ways. Regardless, maybe you need to learn how to live with what you can and not for what others have Does it make sense? Probably not…but alot of things dont, so maybe thats just enough.
Entra sin saber nada
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