
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 →
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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 1074 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
[h3]A truly awesome game.[/h3] It tells a emotional, heart-wrenching story about betrayal and much more. Absolutely recommend it.
居然给我留了时间退款[强] 好玩!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[h1] Потрясающий опыт, пробивающийся сквозь баги [/h1] Игра определенно стоит своих небольших денег. Её стоит попробовать ради уникального игрового опыта. Здесь глубокий сюжет, и в душе точно что-то ёкнет, после финала совершенно точно останется, над чем подумать. Но будьте готовы к тому, что игра плохо оптимизирована, и вам придется «пошаманить» самостоятельно. [h3] Ловите техническую аптечку:[/h3] -Если игра не запускается: Первый запуск часто выдает ошибку. Это фиксится через Свойства -> Общие -> Параметры запуска, куда нужно вписать: -windowed -threads 1. -Для атмосферы: Русскоязычной аудитории очень рекомендую скачать и накатть озвучку от IGROVIK TEAM VOICE (гуглится легко, ставится просто). С ней история воспринимается намного глубже. -и для профилактики от рванного опыта - не пользуйтесь noclip. Он поломает ваше восприятие к игре при перввом прохождении. [i] P.S. Из-за бага со скриптами я очень долго шлялся в абсолютной темноте и успел впитать даже те смыслы, которых разработчик туда не закладывал ([strike] хорошо, что я не боюсь темноты [/strike]). Успел провалиться сквозь карту и подумал, что это великий авторский замысел... но нет, это просто оптимизация. Восприятие из-за этого немного подпортилось, но сама история того стоила. [/i] Спасибо, что читали!
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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.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
first time ive cried in like a month
this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up
This is a terrifying, and, at the same time, validating game
It's good. Can't say much without spoiling it.
Incredible doomed yaoi, these jits just need to crack.
Super Spiel, kann man einfach nicht anders sagen, man muss es nur ganz durchgespielt haben, sonst ist es witzlos. Aber wirklich großen Respekt an die Entwickler!
très bon
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