Games like The Beginner's Guide
If you like The Beginner's Guide (narrative, walking simulator and experimental), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
What Remains of Edith Finch
- In common: story
When you have a quiet afternoon and want a complete, moving experience with no difficulty at all.
Firewatch
- In common: story
When you want a grown-up, lovely story you can finish in one or two afternoons, with no demands.
To the Moon
- In common: story
When you fancy a moving story for one or two afternoons, with no challenge or pressure.
Papo & Yo
- In common: story
When you have a free afternoon and want a short story that's hard to take in: it's over in about four hours.
OXENFREE
- In common: story
When you want a mystery story you can play through in one or two afternoons, with no demands.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
- In common: story
When you fancy a moving story in instalments: each episode lasts a few hours.
Life is Strange 2
- In common: story
When you want a story in instalments: each episode lasts a couple of hours and the first one is free on Steam.
Finding Paradise
- In common: story
When you fancy a moving story in calm sessions: it's over in a few afternoons.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
- In common: story
When you fancy an interactive novel in instalments: each of its three books lasts between three and six hours.
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
- In common: story
When you have a few evenings free: there are six books of roughly an hour each and a single ending.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About The Beginner's Guide
Davey Wreden, creator of The Stanley Parable, walks you in first person through the experimental games his friend Coda made, commenting as you go: there are hardly any mechanics or goals, and you can't die or fail.
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