The Stanley Parable

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.

The Stanley Parable is a comedy, narration and indie game developed and published by Galactic Cafe.
Released on October 17th 2013 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 12 languages: English, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Russian, French, German, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Turkish and Ukrainian.

It has received 44,662 reviews of which 41,294 were positive and 3,368 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 7.39€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Stanley Parable into these genres:

Comedy Narration Indie Walking Simulator First-Person Funny Psychological Satire Dynamic Narration Adventure Multiple Endings Exploration Singleplayer Choices Matter Story Rich Short Surreal Atmospheric Puzzle Casual

Media & Screenshots

Get an in-depth look at The Stanley Parable through various videos and screenshots.

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Express graphics card).
Storage: 3 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher required
Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
Storage: 4 GB available space
Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

A story about Steven. No, wait, his name is... St... Stephanie. Duh, nah. It's St... Stan. Or Stanley.... Whatever, he is fat, ugly, stupid, and addicted to drugs and hookers. 10/10. Narrator: After *insert name here* finished the reading of this review, he pushed the like button.

June 2024

If you catch it on sale, the original is worth playing! Playing the original before playing Ultra Deluxe could be fun and interesting, so that you really appreciate all the Ultra Deluxe jokes about the first game and can spot all the new stuff more easily. Ultra Deluxe really is a sequel in many ways, built on the bones of the original. Also, some of the original visual gags regarding other popular games at the time were updated to reference more recent games in Ultra Deluxe, since the game would be coming out nearly a decade after the original. So giving this one a thorough play-through is recommended! Also, the demo is worth playing prior to giving this a go, as it's entirely separate from the game itself and serves as a sort of comedic prologue.

April 2024

Last time I played this was August 2020 for 24 minutes. I want to play it again, but I'm relatively close to the "Don't play Stanley Parable for 5 years achievement". But from what I remember, the 24 minutes was fun. I'll update my experience in August 2025.

April 2024

"Stanley came across two buttons, a button with thumbs up and one with thumbs down. The decision was very obvious. Stanley slowly moved his mouse over and hit the like button... dont screw this up stanley...."

Jan. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

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Steam price	23 December 2024 20:45
Steam reviews	23 December 2024 01:45

-50% 14.79€ 7.39€

9.1

41,294

3,368

Online players

Developer

Galactic Cafe

Publisher

Galactic Cafe

Release 17 Oct 2013

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