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The Beginner's Guide

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The Beginner's Guide
The Beginner's Guide cover
Developers
Everything Unlimited
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows October 1, 2015
macOS (OS X) October 1, 2015
Linux October 1, 2015
Reception
Metacritic 76
OpenCritic 73
IGDB 75
The Beginner's Guide on HowLongToBeat
The Beginner's Guide on IGDB
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The Beginner's Guide on MobyGames
The Beginner's Guide on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\beginnersguide\cfg\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\beginnersguide\cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.
Advanced graphics settings.
Advanced graphics settings.

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Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.
Keyboard rebinding.
Keyboard rebinding.
Controller settings.
Controller settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Pentium 4
Dual Core 2.0 or AMD64X2
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon X800
Nvidia GeForce 7600
Intel HD Graphics 2000
DirectX 9 compatible
Shader model 2.0b support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible.
Intel Express graphics cards are not supported.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.8
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Pentium 4
Dual Core 2.0 or AMD64X2
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 2400
Nvidia GeForce 8600M
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU) 2.8 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600/9600GT with Nvidia 310 drivers
ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 with AMD 12.11 drivers
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) OpenAL Compatible Sound Card.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References