
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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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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[b]The Beginner's Guide[/b] almost defies description. As a game, it falls squarely into the walking sim category and yet . . . you're not exploring a coherent game space so much as playing a series of game fragments . . . and the story that you learn is not necessarily the story that the narrator is telling you. Davey Wreden is no stranger to expressing big ideas through the medium of computer games. I may not fully understand what's going on here, but I recognize good storytelling. This meditation on the relationship between creator and critic is well worth experiencing. Games can be more than entertainment. Highly recommended.
эта игра сделала мою личность
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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.
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ABSULUTE CINEMA
Спасибо за игру, в процессе прохождения меня ТАК мурашило, как не мурашило бы будь я на северном полюсе. Это какая-то безумная, неадекватная квинтэссенция всего, что меня как человека, и в первую очередь творца, трогает. Пока проходил, задумался над тем, что вероятно произведения своих друзей я ценю и недостаточно, и пожалуй, я тот ещё козёл. От этой игры действительно становится одиноко. Я обожаю абстрактность, я обожаю лиминальность, и в конце концов я обожаю творчество. Никогда никакая игра не отзывалась во мне настолько сильно. Я люблю это. Люблю всей своей душой. Меня как будто в ледяную прорубь окунули. Это что-то неописуемое.
nunca senti isso na minha vida.
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No sabría que decir sobre The Beginner's Guide porque no puedo poner en palabras la importancia que ha tenido en mi vida. Pero si, lo recomiendo.
holy CRAP this game got deep. i aint spoiling nothing and you just gotta trust me when i say that its worth it to go in blind.
Absolutely incredible narrative. And looking at the reviews it seems everyone comes to their own conclusion about the meaning. I highly recommend giving this game a try and experiencing the story. Just don't rush through it, read and listen to what is presented
The most uncomfortable thing about this game is that when you reach the end, and you start thinking about Coda and Davey and the point of this game existing, you start to wonder about its meaning - which is the exact problem that Davey talks about, about assigning meaning to Coda's games. It's this paradox, and I kind of love that.
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