The Beginner's Guide

Games like The Beginner's Guide

Matched on the Steam tags players give them, the closest first.

30 games alike in Walking Simulator, Short and Surreal, with Dear Esther, The Next Door and Discolored closest.

Which of these do you already own?

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The Beginner's Guide: how long it is, and whether it holds up

How this list is made

A game is here when it shares the strongest of The Beginner's Guide's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of the same series come first, a similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. The words under a case are the kinds it shares with The Beginner's Guide. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike.

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat.