# The Beginner's Guide

Summer DB entity ID: dbb62ab0\-9dad\-4038\-83dd\-3f977d907f77

Steam App ID: 303210

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\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Everything Unlimited Ltd\.

- Publisher: Everything Unlimited Ltd\., Klei Publishing

- Release date: Oct 1, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Captions available, Partial Controller Support, Remote Play on Tablet, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/303210/ss\_8741d470e74b457e000cddf2d76ecca6bd07ec2a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1781207118, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/303210/ss\_0b09002cc0606282d588e0057aeff3cf60c5022b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1781207118, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/303210/ss\_2821c368d938362b74843cd1fff2e046d1633bee\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1781207118, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/303210/ss\_051b1a6ffae5c8d41bee9bc85e3aa6178ff8d548\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1781207118, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/303210/ss\_14c6eac68cd32fdf4fdea654f67dacd19785d15a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1781207118, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/303210/ss\_b7190a3d465e0abf9640c1c774a4b3445836e69d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1781207118

- Price: 999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 12

- Steam review count: 23563

- Steam positive reviews: 20808

- Steam negative reviews: 2755

- Steam positive percentage: 88.3079404150575%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/dbb62ab0-9dad-4038-83dd-3f977d907f77/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/dbb62ab0-9dad-4038-83dd-3f977d907f77/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T00:19:19\.898932\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T00:19:21\.546187\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T00:19:21\.327153\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/303210/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/dbb62ab0-9dad-4038-83dd-3f977d907f77)