
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.
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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 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 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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ゲーム製作者Codaとお喋りナレーターDaveyのお話です。 男同士の色恋を嗜む女性が好みそうな雰囲気の作品と思われますが、 私にそちらの趣味は無いので本職の方にお任せします。 良い点 まずは何よりマップの造形が美しい!! 今で言うところのLiminalSpaceですが、これが類を見ないほどの造形美でとっても良かった!! 何処を切り取っても絵になる素晴らしいゲームです! Codaの字幕を探すLiminal探索ゲームとかやりたいレベル、本当に最高だった! 好みではない点 ・自分の環境だとコントローラーの右スティックが機能しませんでした。 一瞬ゲームの演出かと思いましたが、キーマウだと普通に動いたので詳細は不明です。 ・ナレーションが邪魔と感じる瞬間がありました。 もっとじっくり見て回りたいのに勝手にマップ移動されたり。 そういうゲームではないので仕方ないですが…… ストーリー 序盤で違和感はありましたが…ここまでだとは思いませんでした。 モチーフや日付が妙に生々しく、他プレイヤーの考察を読むのが楽しいです。 [spoiler]時代が違えばDaveyはとんでもないSNSお化けになってたと思います。[/spoiler] [spoiler]彼の言動は自分も一部覚えがあるのですが、それでもやっぱり許せません。[/spoiler] 反面教師にします。 ゲームとしては、ウォーキングシミュレーターです。Daveyの指示に沿ってCodaのゲームを遊びます。 作中人物の年代は2008年~2011年とのことですが、 [spoiler]当時のコンプライアンスやネットマナーがどうなってたのか興味深いです。[/spoiler] ミステリー作品や、人の心情を細かに描く作品、余韻が残る作品が好きな方にお勧めです。
无边界的空间里规律地排布着的灯光 一定是某些代价的结晶 明亮又深邃 指引我更加深入 在必然的波动后点明下一处启示之光 不断循环 当无数生命的痕迹汇聚于此处闪烁 地平线缓缓融化伴随着夜晚降临 彷若银河。
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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
a very good narrative game, i liked everything about it. although i finished it in less than two hours, and the game no longer has much more to offer that means i'll be refunding it :p
very cool
me when j realize that davey and coda is the same persom
it's more like an interactive movie, but one that's definetly worth checking out, i'd just buy it when it's on sale
Definitly one of the most video games video games i have ever played. You should try this.
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It seeded a few new thoughts in my head.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this was an experience...
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