Released Oct 1, 2015 $9.99 Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

The Beginner's Guide

By Everything Unlimited Ltd.

Story Rich Walking Simulator Indie Atmospheric First-Person Short Singleplayer Abstract AdventureSurrealPsychologicalEmotional

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Reviews 19,990 Very Positive

Players yesterday 7 at the busiest moment

Owners 500K–1M estimated

The Beginner's Guide is a game tagged Story Rich, Walking Simulator and Indie by Everything Unlimited Ltd., released Oct 1, 2015. It has 19,990 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 500K–1M owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include The Memories That Shape Us, Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game and Portrait of a Torn.

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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The Memories That Shape Us 94% match · Story Rich, Walking Simulator, Indie
Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game 86% match · Story Rich, Walking Simulator, Indie
Portrait of a Torn 86% match · Story Rich, Walking Simulator, Indie
Back Then 84% match · Story Rich, Walking Simulator, Indie
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Everything Steam lists for The Beginner's Guide · record updated 13 hours ago

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Overview

App ID303210

Release dateOct 1, 2015Early Access Oct 1, 2015

Last change number37432709

Last record update13 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Publisher: Everything Unlimited Ltd., Klei Publishing
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Technologies: Source detected
Website: thebeginnersgui.de

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
French	Yes		Yes
German	Yes		Yes
Spanish - Spain	Yes		Yes
Russian	Yes		Yes

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Steam Deck: Playable
Controller: Partial support

Single-playerCaptions availableRemote Play on tabletFamily SharingPartial controller support

Patches

Build	Branch	Updated
897906	public	Oct 25, 2026

Packages & DLC

ID	Name	Games	Price (US)
44663	The Beginner's Guide	1	$9.99
80059	The Beginner's Guide + Soundtrack	1	$12.99
1849 Bundle	The Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide	2	$22.48
77296 Bundle	The Beginner's Guide + Gone Home	2	$22.48
49991 Bundle	Klei Publishing	13	$122.87

ID	Name	Price (US)
406460	Not on the store yet	—

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
303211	—	All	3.25 GB	1.55 GB	921991094919271892
303212	—	macOS	124.8 MB	31.3 MB	8628892352567586198
303213	—	Linux	73.1 MB	17.9 MB	7895287787667576097
406461	— DLC 406460	All	101.8 MB	98.7 MB	8116505363482285153

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	897906	—	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/The Beginners Guide

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
beginnersguide.exe		Windows	Launch
launchit.sh	-game beginnersguide	macOS
launchit.sh	-game beginnersguide	Linux

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The Beginner's Guide

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