
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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Without spoiling anything, there was a point when the narrator used the word "self-destructive" and my game immediately crashed. The Beginner's Guide is so deeply aware of its own meta-narrative that I initially assumed this was a clever fourth-wall break. But nope, I had to restart my entire PC. If you're the kind of person who enjoys this kind of self-aware writing, this game is a must-play.
혹시나 게임이 안 켜지신다면 Windows 키 + R -> msconfig 입력, [부팅] 탭 -> [고급 옵션] -> '프로세서 수' 체크 후 숫자를 8로 맞추고 [확인] -> [적용] 후 컴퓨터를 재부팅하면 됩니다.
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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
short but v good
yeah
english/español I played The Stanley Parable and I really enjoy this type of game where they break the fourth wall. I expected a game like The Stanley Parable, but wow. It's a really creative game with a great story. I don't know how to explain it, but it hit me really deeply. If you like video games and good stories, please give it a try and play it all the way through. Thanks for this incredible game Me pasé el The Stanley Parable y me gustan mucho este tipo de juegos que rompen la cuarta pared. Me esperaba un juego parecido a The Stanley Parable, pero wow. Es un juego muy creativo con una historia increíble. No sé muy bien cómo explicarlo, pero me ha impactado muchísimo este juego, lo he sentido mucho. Si te gustan los videojuegos y las buenas historias, por favor dale una oportunidad y juégalo hasta el final. Gracias por este gran juego
this ♥♥♥♥ is such a gem bro. its not for everyone but its worth playing just for the chance that you like it.
good game, i like the message and the ending was nice. i love the soundtrack especially the one in the house segment
like my dreams its acc good diffrent but still good never know what s coming some jump scares but it was a rly rly good game
good lil story about creators and their own self doubts, check it out
Do not read anything about this game. Don't even read that many reviews. Trust the ones that came before and free free this experience from any expectations. It will defy all of them, so there's really no point to expect anything out of it.
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