
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.
Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days Steam · Top Sellers · Poland has just 18 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,498 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.
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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Please play this game.
One of my favorite examples of the [spoiler]unreliable narrator[/spoiler] trope. A masterclass in storytelling in the most unexpected places.
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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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if a documentary about video games was a video game but with a bit of humor
loved this game
10/10, beautiful
very interesting. [spoiler] coda’s games remind me a lot of dr morro’s vrchat worlds and twenty one pilots songs about struggling to write music like Pet Cheetah and the music video for The Craving. i relate to his process a lot with struggling to come up with ideas and using games a way to express your emotions. that’s what my first ever game was. i didn’t really like the ending though. it really just painted the narrator as an egomaniac who didn’t respect coda’s wishes of not publishing his games and leaving him alone. very weird. EDIT: it's autobiographical fiction. he's a genius. good art. good game. [/spoiler]
Есть разные игры. Есть хорошие, есть плохие, есть великие. А есть вот такие. На первый взгляд, да и на второй- обычная индушатина, вообще ничего интересного. А на деле... Это безумно глубокий опыт. Узнал я о ней через видео, где был весьма громкий заголовок "Игра, которая изменила мою жизнь". Автору я доверял как родному, поэтому посмотрел. И ни разу не пожалел. Ведь так и оказалось, эта игра изменила не только жизнь автора видео, но и мою тоже. Если вам интересен глубокий опыт погружения, когда за отношения персонажей переживаешь сильнее, чем за свои, то настоятельно советую. История проста как пять копеек, но рассказывает о важных вещах простым языком через простых, но от того рабочих персонажей. А особенно я настоятельно советую тем, кто работает с сюжетом и нарративом, сценаристам, писателям и прочим. Тут рассказывается очень важный и нужный аспект при написании любой истории, будь то хоррор или милая любовная новелла
Played this game on a whim since I've recently been back into the Stanley Parable and this was genuinely such a powerful game. I would recommend to anyone who has 10 dollars spare or to at least watch a playthrough as it is only an hour and a half in length.
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