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The Stanley Parable

Galactic Cafe · Oct 17, 2013

PC

Rating pending

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The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. This world was not made for you to understand.

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PC

Critic 8.9 (26 critics) · Gamer 9.1

8.8

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  • Game Trailers

    Game Trailers · Oct 25, 2013

    9.2
    Depending on whether you spend a minute or three hours with The Stanley Parable, your impression of it will change. Just when you think you’ve figured it all out, the game will throw you as far off course as possible. You’ll feel a bizarre motivation to uncover each of more than a dozen endings, even when the game is openly mocking you for doing so. The insults speak to a larger truth and may make you question what it means to play games at all. This introspection, however, will have you laughing the entire time.
  • PC Gamer

    Phil Savage · Oct 25, 2013

    9.0
    There are pacing issues, but they're inherent to the illusory freedom. The more subtle endings can fall flat if experienced directly after the most shocking and bizarre. More ironically, this game about game endings doesn't have one of its own. Having run through my internal checklist of possible paths, I'm now left poking around for possible secrets. And so The Stanley Parable ends on a whimper, but to have it any other way would spoil the frequent bangs along the way.
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  • mZtthew⭐

    Jul 10, 2021 · PC

    8.0

    This game is amazing, why? that would basically spoil the whole game. Let me just say, there 19 endings. Some lasting for only 16mins. it basically takes you 1-4 hours to complete all the endings. There's comedy,it's also a walking simulator, with the narrator talking in the background and saying what you're going to do next. You can either follow what he says or not. Your actions matters. Graphics is pretty decent for a 2013 game. With some endings being cool and some being quite sad. and there's an ending where you get to "play" another game. worth trying. it's pretty short though.

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