The Beginner's Guide review: A weird, fiercely personal game

October 04, 2015

Here’s Davey Wreden’s Steam description for his latest game, 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.” Turns out this disarmingly honest appraisal is a sign of what’s to come. To get a bit more specific: The Beginner’s Guide is short, weird, and either fiercely personal or painfully self-indulgent—or both, if you’d prefer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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