
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.
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 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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Reviews
Themes across 1074 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
worth every penny this is beautiful
Damn ;(
everybody needs to play this game RIGHT NOW
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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
I've been thinking about this game constantly since I played it years ago
Still holds up the same now versus when it came out
come back coda plzzz
The game isn't a game in the traditional sense; it is, above all, a visual story, a journey, an experience—without the usual game mechanics or objectives. It is a very creative and daring concept that uses this medium as an art form. The playtime is very short, but it gives you plenty to think about long after you've finished. In my opinion, it's well worth simply embarking on this journey unprepared and letting the story sink in. [spoiler]It is a very human, relatable, personal story about the struggle with one’s own lack of understanding and the almost desperate desire to understand an artist through his art.[/spoiler]
bin sprachlos. Keine ahnung. Ich hab Sachen gespürt.
A very beautiful game
boring
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