The Beginner's Guide
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Adventure-focused play defines The Beginner's Guide, with no listed Steam tags beyond its primary genre. It launched in 2015, is self-published by an unknown developer, and shows 19,416 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive; initial price was $9.99.
Overview
The Beginner's Guide is a 2015 Adventure game developed by Everything Unlimited Ltd. and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd.. On Steam it has gathered 23,043 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Everything Unlimited Ltd. with publisher Everything Unlimited Ltd. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Beginner's Guide can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
23,043
Positive
88%
Steam appid
303210
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.3M to 3.1M
units (median: 2.2M)
≈ $7.5M to $17.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Beginner's Guide at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million copies, with a median around 2.2 million, derived from its 23,043 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $6.23Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $6.23 to $9.99, averaging $9.73 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $6.23 on 2026-03-21.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Story RichWalking SimulatorNarrationIndieAtmosphericFirst-PersonShortSingleplayerAbstractAdventureSurrealPsychologicalExperimentalEmotionalGreat SoundtrackPhilosophicalDarkExperiencePsychological HorrorPuzzle
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Beginner's Guide sold?
- indielist estimates The Beginner's Guide has sold between 1,313,451 and 3,064,719 units (median 2,189,085), derived from its 23,043 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Beginner's Guide?
- The Beginner's Guide was developed by Everything Unlimited Ltd. and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd..
- When was The Beginner's Guide released?
- The Beginner's Guide was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does The Beginner's Guide have on Steam?
- The Beginner's Guide has 23,043 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Beginner's Guide within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Everything Unlimited Ltd.'s other releases and Everything Unlimited Ltd.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Beginner's Guide sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Beginner's Guide page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.