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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.

The Beginner's Guide is a story rich, walking simulator and narration game developed and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd..
Released on October 01st 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.

It has received 22,002 reviews of which 19,369 were positive and 2,633 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.60€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified The Beginner's Guide into these genres:

Story Rich Walking Simulator Narration Indie Atmospheric First-Person Short Singleplayer Abstract Adventure Surreal Psychological Experimental Emotional Great Soundtrack Philosophical Dark Experience Psychological Horror Puzzle

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Intel Express graphics card).
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher required
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
  • Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
Stop reading reviews of this game! ANY REVIEW YOU READ may ruin the experience for you. This game is best experienced BLIND. This game requires a level of critical thinking and reflection. It's important to play this game in one go, like watching a movie. Overall, I absolutely love it. There are so many interpretations and meanings you can draw from it. There are many playthroughs you can find on YouTube, and every single person who played it drew a slightly different message from the game. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I played it a month ago. I guess that means it succeeded. Well done.
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Dec. 2024
This game seems like it would be the most pretentious game ever, until you realize its the complete opposite. With that said, I need to work on something. For myself that is.
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Dec. 2024
I dont break into tears often. if ever, its rare. This game made me feel intense incredible emotion. Nothing no other show, movie, nor game has ever done. I felt the emotion. Not all the emotion, but enough to make me feel beyond myself as a player alone. Incredible game. highly recommend.
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Dec. 2024
This game is very interesting. At first I was disappointed cause it felt like there was no real ending, but after a while I realized that is the whole point. The games Coda enjoyed making didn't have a point and Dave only saw games as something that needed to be finished or completed and not as something that needed to be enjoyed. I saw games like Dave until I played this game. Unless it was online games, I needed to finish, and get to the end of a game as fast as possible, and I needed to feel completion. What's important about games is not the ending, it is the journey and the in-between. Not all games need lampposts (or endings) to be fun or enjoyed, sometimes you just need to live in the moment and be happy for what you have and what's there.
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Nov. 2024
I'll keep it short and sweet with a few quick bullet points. 1. You should go into this game as blind as possible. It is a different story the more context about it you have. 2. This game affected me more viscerally than any other. It is the most impactful game I have ever played. 3. This game is especially impactful if you are someone engaged in game development, or any sort of creation. 4. The game lasts ~100 minutes (exactly, if you're me), and feels like a thousand sucker punches to the gut. I cannot recommend it enough. Please play this game.
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Beginner's Guide is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Beginner's Guide is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

The Beginner's Guide received 19,369 positive votes out of a total of 22,002 achieving a rating of 8.62.
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The Beginner's Guide was developed and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd..

The Beginner's Guide is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Beginner's Guide is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Beginner's Guide is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Beginner's Guide is a single-player game.

The Beginner's Guide does not currently offer any DLC.

The Beginner's Guide does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Beginner's Guide supports Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

The Beginner's Guide is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Beginner's Guide.

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The Beginner's Guide
9.75€ -33% 9.75€ 6.60€
8.6
19,369
2,633
Game modes
Features
Online players
9
Developer
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Publisher
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Release 01 Oct 2015
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