Games like The Beginner's Guide

Did The Beginner's Guide leave you in a surreal and atmospheric frame of mind? These games are a good place to start.

The Stanley Parable
A first-person walk through an empty office where a narrator tells your story, and you keep deciding whether to listen. Every disobedience sends the tale somewhere new and stranger. It is short, very funny, and it will argue with you about what a game is allowed to do.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
92% of 40,359 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
Life Tastes Like Cardboard
A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
95% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse)
A first-person, narrative-driven game featuring The Developer, who questions, taunts, and tests you at every turn. You shouldn’t press the button, but you’ll want to. You will have control, and you will have none. Power is in your hands... or is it? Inspired by classic narrative driven games.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
68% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Awkward Dimensions Redux
An interactive dream journal from one developer: a short, surreal first-person trip through dreamscapes about growing up, art, fear and failed relationships. You open doors, wander strange worlds, meet roosters and disembodied legs, and slowly piece together the person behind it all. It is odd, sincere and unlike anything else.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
80% of 2,966 Steam reviews are positiveFree
THE CORRIDOR
A 20-30 minute first-person comedy about a corridor, an orange button that closes the game, and the voice that keeps reacting to your choices. Press it, restart, and the hallway shifts just enough to make you wonder who is really in charge here.
Surreal, Story-driven
94% of 3,032 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Title_Pending
Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Story-driven
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
A point & click comedy where the game insists there is no game. A grumpy voice tries to stop you clicking while a bug named Mr. Glitch wrecks the place, and you travel through parody video game worlds solving riddles that break every rule. Short, weird, fully voiced, and funnier than it has any right to be.
Surreal, Story-driven
97% of 24,352 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$12.99
Gone Home
It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight. Open drawers, read letters, piece together where everyone went. A short, quiet, surprisingly moving mystery told entirely through the things a family leaves behind.
Atmospheric, Emotional, Story-driven
77% of 13,658 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.49
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
A deserted Hebridean island, a voice reading fragments of a letter, and nothing to do but walk. Dear Esther trades puzzles and combat for a poetic story of love, loss and guilt, told through a haunting island and a soundtrack by Jessica Curry. Every visit plays out a little differently. Come to wander, listen and piece together what happened.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
79% of 2,508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Break the Game
This game is about Kevin, He's been stuck in his gaf̶̨s̨fẃ̵̕ HEY, YOU, STAY AWA̸̧͘Y, IT'S ME KEVIN, THERE'S NO POINT, D҉Ò̷̕N̸̕͏'T-- Follow him in this adventurous and humor-filled story to ｄ̶̢͙̟̦̺̰̫̙̋̊͐̐͑͋̈́̕̕͝ ｄｉｅ
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
72% of 634 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than The Beginner's Guide

THE CORRIDOR

Walk down a corridor, press the button, and deal with what the game thinks about that.

$1.99

Gone Home

It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight.

$4.49

Another Adventure

A hand-drawn visual novel that follows four young men chasing dreams that keep slipping past them.

$1.99

OneShot

A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them.

$5.99

Fever Meme

A genre-hopping comedy of rage platforming, spider game shows and fourth-wall jokes, hiding a darker story with multiple endings.

$4.20

Indecision.

A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

$2.99

Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

The Old City: Leviathan

The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world.

$5.99

Indie Dream

This is just the story of a young and naive indie dev.

$0.99

What Comes After

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself.

$4.99

DMT: Dream Dealer Trip

DMT: Dream Dealer is a walking simulator that guides you trough a trip between worlds.

$3.99

Hidden gems like The Beginner's Guide

Burden Street Station

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

$14.99

Keeper

Guide a wandering lighthouse and its bird companion through a wordless, surreal journey across a dying island.

$19.99

My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

$10.99

Wanderstop

Grow, brew and serve tea to travelers in a magical forest, at whatever pace you can manage.

$24.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

$14.99

Fever Meme

A genre-hopping comedy of rage platforming, spider game shows and fourth-wall jokes, hiding a darker story with multiple endings.

$4.20

Title_Pending

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).

$9.99

Centum

Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal?

$9.74

Until Then

Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.

$19.99

One Dreamer

Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong…

$15.99

nothing_matters

A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer.

Free

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

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