The Beginner's Guide 2015

Is it still worth playing?

Davey Wreden's interactive story, released in 2015 as the follow up to The Stanley Parable. Wreden narrates, taking you through a number of incomplete and abstract games made by a developer called Coda, and challenges you to work out what kind of person Coda is by exploring those spaces. It is played from a first person view, and some areas hold puzzles and conversation trees, but you cannot die, make a mistake or lose. The narration helps you past parts that would otherwise be difficult or impossible, for example by providing a bridge across an invisible maze. After a chapter you can replay it with the narration, and its help, switched off. It plays with its own fiction through Wreden's narration. With no way to fail, the whole story can be read at your own pace today.