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The Beginner's Guide

The Beginner's Guide

The Beginner's Guide

2015
Thematic
The Beginner's Guide is an interactive storytelling video game created by Davey Wreden under the studio name Everything Unlimited Ltd. The game is narrated by Wreden and takes the user through a number of incomplete and abstract game creations made by a developer named Coda. Wreden challenges the player to try to come to understand the type of person Coda is from exploring these spaces in a first-person perspective. (wikipedia.org)

The Beginner's Guide

2015
Thematic
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Average Percentile: 57.43%
08 Feb 2025
95
0th
One of the most beautiful games of all time, especially if you make videogames. Every time I've played this I've cried
28 Oct 2023
87
79th
Avoid reviews, including this one. It's a deliciously clever meta-narrative that goes to some dark places
31 Jul 2020
55
15th
I guess if this story was true it would have been hard to actually release so I understand that, but that's the problem: if this was real then this is a legit 95 because this game truly demolished me by the end. It wasn't until after when I figured out it was a fake story that I was like "oh..." You can still take some kind of commentary from it but it's not the same, and it makes forgiving the simple gameplay a lot harder.
18 Mar 2019
8
94th
you know, i feel like this would be even better if davey were telling the truth. which is kinda awful, really. this thing hits hard.
12 Aug 2018
63
32nd
Gave me motion sickness, had no fov slider, and hitched every time there was audio. All this made it a bit hard to be fully engaged. It would be a 7/10 without the technical issues except then I might have enjoyed it more but I don't think so.
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