The Beginner's Guide is an adventure developed by Everything Unlimited Ltd., released 1 October 2015 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 1.7 hrs to finish.
What The Beginner's Guide is
The Beginner's Guide is an adventure game developed by Everything Unlimited Ltd. and released in 2015. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Source.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Beginner's Guide is an interactive storytelling video game created by Davey Wreden under the studio name Everything Unlimited Ltd. It was released for Linux, macOS, and Windows on October 1, 2015. It is Wreden's follow-up to the critically praised The Stanley Parable, initially released in 2013.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Beginner's Guide holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 265 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher), 2 GB RAM and 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).. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it launched against
The Beginner's Guide launched on 1 October 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Beginner's Guide yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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