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The Beginner's Guide

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“The Beginner's Guide is one of the most daring and creative commercial games to come out in a good long while...a masterclass in character-driven storytelling.”Eurogamer“Few game developers have ever ventured such an open-hearted project about human frailty – and knocked it out of orbit.”The Washington Post“I've been thinking about this game a lot for the past 36 hours. It demanded I think about it, at first only superficially, but later more substantively. I mulled over a lot of questions when I should have been sleeping. I continued thinking right when I woke up. I think I dreamed about it in between.”Destructoid




About This Game
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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Minimum:OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)Memory: 2 GB RAMGraphics: 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).Storage: 4 GB available spaceSound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible



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Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.




Minimum:OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher requiredProcessor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)Memory: 2 GB RAMGraphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higherStorage: 4 GB available space



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Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.



Minimum:OS: Ubuntu 12.04Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAMGraphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1Storage: 4 GB available spaceSound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

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