
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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Themes across 1079 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Amazing story AND made by the best game author ever? I must be in heaven
Don't look up anything about this game, just play it. Trust me.
The Beginner's Guide is the only game I've ever played that rivals the depth of good classical literature
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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
waste game
Every one is a passing moment a spec in the view of infinity to be forgotten is to fully die to be remembered is to be immortal to create is to suffer.
What the hell did i just play and why did i like it?
When the "Tower" comes into our lives, we all have a chance to choose between the "Devil" and the "Star" So please remember to clean your house from time to time. (If you don't want to risk choosing your path at random of course)
Quel tipo di gioco che quando finisci senti il bisogno di fumare 500 sigarette tutte di fila, magari di notte, mentre fuori la pioggia batte. in quel momento, forse per la stimolazione dal gioco, inizi a ripensare alle conversazioni avute anni fa con quella persona lì, quella persona che un tempo definivi amica, sognavate entrambi di sfondare e di avere successo, già riuscivate a vedere i vostri nomi sui giornali, scritto e diretto da te e quella persona, sognavate in grande e avevate il potenziale di sfondare. continui a rivivere quelle conversazioni fra una boccata di sigaretta e l'altra, ti chiedi in questo momento cosa sta facendo, chissà se ha abbandonato i suoi sogni, chissà se li ha rimpiazzati con un noioso lavoro da ufficio, di quelli lì che ti succhiano via l'anima e le energie per portare i soldi a casa dell'affittuario, lasciandoti due briciole con cui devi sopravvivere fino alla fine del mese. forse stai proiettando la tua infelicità sulla tua idea della sua vita in tua assenza, magari è più felice ora che avete rotto. chi lo sa. vorresti riconnetterti, vorresti poter chiedere per l'ultima volta scusa, vorresti poter mostrare, se non a quella persona a chiunque altro possa prestarti ascolto, che sei finalmente felice, sei finalmente una persona realizzata, non per sbatterglielo in faccia ma con la speranza di aggiungere un posto alla tua felicità, gioia condivisa è gioia raddoppiata dopotutto, ma come metterti in contatto? accendi un'altra sigaretta, l'occhio cade su questo gioco nella tua libreria. ci ripensi su. fumi tutta la sigaretta in un'unica boccata e, come se un demone ti stesse possedendo, cerchi con disperazione nella libreria i tuoi vecchi attrezzi. e decidi di creare di nuovo qualcosa.
Enjoyable. It impresses me how strong is the sound and narrative in videogames like this one.
Are you OK, man?
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