Strategy guides

Strategy guides were once full-fledged companions to the gaming experience.
Far more than simple collections of tips, they combined walkthroughs, secrets, visual material, and sometimes even alternative ways of reading and understanding a game’s universe.

This subcategory explores video game strategy guides as editorial objects in their own right. Collector’s editions, rare versions, official guides, or more obscure publications each reveal a specific way of supporting the player, structuring progression, and extending the relationship with a game beyond the screen.

Beyond collecting, this space offers analysis on their role within gaming culture, their evolution in the face of online resources and wikis, and what makes a strategy guide truly distinctive. An open reflection on what these books once provided, what has been lost, and how the strategy guide could be reimagined today as a cultural and narrative object, rather than a mere optimization tool.