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The Beginner's Guide

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.

Recent Reviews:

Very Positive (88) - 88% of the 88 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

All Reviews:

Very Positive (17,769) - 88% of the 17,769 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Oct 1, 2015

Developer:

Everything Unlimited Ltd.

Publisher:

Everything Unlimited Ltd.

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Curator Review

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By Knoxville Game Design October 21, 2016

“The Beginner's Guide was covered in the second episode of the Knoxville Game Design podcast.”

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Features

Captions available

Remote Play on Tablet

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔
French	✔		✔
German	✔		✔
Spanish - Spain	✔		✔
Russian	✔		✔

Title: The Beginner's Guide
Genre: Adventure, Indie

Developer: Everything Unlimited Ltd.

Publisher: Everything Unlimited Ltd.

Release Date: Oct 1, 2015

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Reviews

“The Beginner's Guide is one of the most daring and creative commercial games to come out in a good long while...a masterclass in character-driven storytelling.”
Eurogamer

“Few game developers have ever ventured such an open-hearted project about human frailty – and knocked it out of orbit.”
The Washington Post

“I've been thinking about this game a lot for the past 36 hours. It demanded I think about it, at first only superficially, but later more substantively. I mulled over a lot of questions when I should have been sleeping. I continued thinking right when I woke up. I think I dreamed about it in between.”
Destructoid

About This Game

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.

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

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

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

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

* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

Minimum:

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

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