
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.
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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Reviews
Themes across 1079 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Une expérience à vivre ! La narration est bien faite, les musiques sont incroyables et accentuent les émotions variées du scénario.
It was very interesting. I had a discussion and viewed a video essay about it! That was around a decade ago. I have no idea how relevant the story is in 2026. The gameplay is minimal, but it goes very well with the game's amazing presentation
Damn
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
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
almost cried at the end
This guy really shows how video games can be art. I hope to play more games from him. edit: having read up, I hope he is continuing to do what makes him happy. I would recommend this game.
there's nothing else like this game
This is the most refreshingly depressing game you'll ever play. If you're a people pleaser or have someone in your life who is, you need to play this. It will hit you with an emotional gut punch that you need and might never recover from. It's beautiful in its artistry and has a message that needs to be heard and experienced. Get it, play it, have a strong drink afterwards.
this game made me see things in myself that I was trying to hide for so long.
maybe i only like things once i don't have them anymore
It is a very touching game, I was gifted by a friend after a break up, and I love the game and what it stands for, I barely write reviews but this game is a game I couldn't resist reviewing, I love it, the idea behind it is very touching and heartfelt, there was multiple points in the game where I felt the need and want to cry, and crying is okay.
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