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IGDB / 3035

The Stanley Parable

2013 86 / 100 Adventure Indie
A first-person exploration game built around branching narrative choices and an omniscient narrator who reacts to the player's decisions. Players navigate an office environment, choosing whether to follow or defy the narrator's directions, with each choice leading to different story paths and endings. Originally released as a Half-Life 2 mod in 2011, it was remade as a standalone title in 2013 and later expanded with Show full summary

A first-person exploration game built around branching narrative choices and an omniscient narrator who reacts to the player's decisions. Players navigate an office environment, choosing whether to follow or defy the narrator's directions, with each choice leading to different story paths and endings. Originally released as a Half-Life 2 mod in 2011, it was remade as a standalone title in 2013 and later expanded with The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe in 2022, which added new routes, environments, and endings across additional platforms.

World design Nicht eindeutig ExperienceStory-focused ExperienceChoices

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Story & context

Stanley is employee number 427 at a large corporation, where his job consists entirely of monitoring data on a computer screen and pressing buttons as instructed. He has never questioned his work or his purpose. One day, the screen goes blank and Stanley realizes the entire office is empty. Every coworker has vanished without explanation. Guided by the voice of a narrator who claims to know Stanley's story, Stanley begins exploring the abandoned building. But the narrator's version of events may not be the only one, and Stanley must decide whether to follow the path laid out for him or forge his own way through a world that seems determined to tell him who he is.

ExperienceStory-focused ExperienceChoices GenreAdventure GenreIndie ThemeComedy Traitbreaking the fourth wall Traitcolor separation Traitdarkness Traitdeath Traitdigital distribution Traitdynamic narrative Traitigf awards Traitmale protagonist Traitmeta Traitmod origin Traitmultiple endings Traitnarration Traitnarrative-driven Traitpax prime 2013 Traitsteam Traitsteam achievements Traitsteam cloud Traitsteam greenlight Traitsurreal Traitunreliable narrator Traitvending machine interaction Traitvoice acting Traitwalking simulator Traitxbox controller support for pc

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Studio & publishing

Developer
Galactic Cafe
Publisher
Galactic Cafe, Klei Entertainment
Franchise
Standalone
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So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Comedy
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Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • Linux Sep 09, 2015
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Oct 17, 2013
  • Mac Dec 19, 2013

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