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Game
Game2013
The Stanley Parable
Developer Galactic Cafe
The Stanley Parable is a 2013 story-based video game designed and written by developers Davey Wreden and William Pugh. In the game, the player guides a silent protagonist named Stanley alongside narration by British actor Kevan Brighting. As the story progresses, the player is confronted with diverging pathways. The player may contradict the directions of Brighting's ''The Narrator'', which, if disobeyed, will be… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
301 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
LovedLoved
194 positive · 17 negative
95% range 87–95%
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| Steam reviews | 194 | 17 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
90 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
42,391 of 45,851 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 301 · most liked firsti lied, i am starting the Stanley Parable 24+ hour stream NOW, i have to keep the game open for all of Tuesday for an achievement, won't be present for all 24, but come on by www.twitch.tv/prozd
unlabelledView post →do fangirls have to sexually objectify the characters like they did for the Stanley Parable and Mouthwashing to get this game the proper numbers it deserves, or what!!!
unlabelledView post →And if you've played The Stanley Parable but not The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe because you thought it was just a revised version of the same game... well time to go play Ultra Deluxe!
unlabelledView post →The 10th game for Indie Game Tarot is The Stanley Parable! I got great suggestions for the tower, Slay the Spire and Control were my favorites, but I went with The Stanley Parable because I felt like it really embodies the meaning really well and it was one of those really formative games for me.
unlabelledView post →Slay the Princess is a strange beast of a game. It seems to be inspired by Disco Elysium and The Stanley Parable, and plays like a psychological horror roguelike branching path visual novel. The hand-drawn images by @abbyhoward.bsky.social are stunning.
unlabelledView post →First of all, this is one of my favorite games ever and there is nothing wrong with it. I'm only leaving a negative review because this is the original 2013 release of the game and while it was well polished in its day it's starting to show its age and if you have the money to spare I highly recommend that you buy the 2022 remake "The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe" instead. Despite being a remake in Unity rather than Source it visually looks and mechanically plays exactly the same way, while…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here’s your first glimpse of @c418.org’s soundtrack for Wanderstop, the next game from Davy Wreden (The Stanley Parable). open.spotify.com/track/0msAaY...
unlabelledView post →This movie looks a little different than I remember it... Catch sweetpeebs running bonus game The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe 12 Endings (With Bucket) right NOW at gdq.gg! #FrostFatales
unlabelledView post →The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is game of the day on the App Store today! apps.apple.com/story/id1768...
unlabelledView post →RPS readers rank THE LONG DARK the 85th best game of all time, in good company between TEAM FORTRESS 2 and THE STANLEY PARABLE. Humbled and grateful! ❤️ www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-rps-100-...
unlabelledView post →The Stanley Parable From the moment I started the game in Stanley's office, I had this overwhelming sense of Severance - just the ambience. Those corridors! Has anyone else had this sensation?
unlabelledView post →I was thinking: "Alright, this game is fine and all, nothing crazy. I don't understand the hype behind it". But then I got to the Broom Closet Ending. OH. MY. GOD. That made all of it worth it! Just to see that ending I feel complete! At ease! Just for that ending alone, you HAVE to play this game! 4/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wanderstop: chill teashop management but has a focus on narrative. From the Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide crew. store.steampowered.com/app/1299460/...
unlabelledView post →Playing The Stanley Parable for the first time ever but there's some incredibly funny shit hidden all over this game
unlabelledView post →The Stanley Parable man making what seems to be a cozy farming Sim game but stars a protagonist from a different genre who had PTSD over combat and some seemingly dangling unresolved past threads is immediately one of the most fascinating pitches I've heard in ages
unlabelledView post →Patron’s are forcing me to play The Stanley Parable! No idea what this game is about. www.youtube.com/live/cJBSWOG...
unlabelledView post →This game changed my life. My perspective, my morals, my sexuality, even my gender. You need to be careful because The Narrator's buttery smooth voice will stick with you throughout your remaining days as you live your life. I used to work Toys-R-Us until The Narrator led me down a path where he told me to destroy the building... The judge didn't even believe me. They sent to a psychiatric hospital and tried to force pills down my throat. You know when sometimes one thing leads to the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →in contention with the Stanley Parable one where you don't play the game for 10 years, or the Hate Plus one where you have to bake an actual cake and send Christine a photo of it
unlabelledView post →How people describe our game: - The Stanley Parable without the narrator - Don't play this game while high - Play this game while high
unlabelledView post →This is a niche post but I don't care. I just love that The Stanley Parable (a video game about the freedom of choices in video games) is a Theme Park game and not a Sandbox game. It's just such an extra layer of "chefs kiss".
unlabelledView post →Recently, @patrickklepek.bsky.social chatted with Davey Wreden (@hellocakebread.bsky.social), designer behind The Stanley Parable, The Beginner’s Guide, and Wanderstop. The two discussed early fame, using video game design as therapy for your soul, and much more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
unlabelledView post →I chose the blue door, ran around in circles, pressed random buttons, and got called fat and ugly. 100/10, feels just like a real work environment
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Five years, five long years. That's how long it took us to get that damn achievement. Though I have to say that it was all worth it for that broom closet ending. It was my favourite!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Replace bucket with AI. (game is called The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, highly recommend)
unlabelledView post →when you open settings and enable achievements. it unlocks the achievement ´´achievement´´ and its one of the beautiful things abt this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh wait right. Links. So this dev team made The Stanley Parable, which is: The Stanley Parable, and also The Beginners Guide, which is one of the pieces of art that has rung me like a bell. Demo that made me real damn glad it comes out in march. store.steampowered.com/app/3482840/...
unlabelledView post →you’d think I’d be the target audience here as someone who got the good ending in Spec Ops: The Line (never played it) and refers to the Stanley Parable as my favorite video game, but this looks like the sort of game that gets made fun of multiple times in the Stanley Parable
unlabelledView post →it's like if The Stanley Parable was a horror game, and you're trapped in your home in the psychological horror Luto
unlabelledView post →Don't listen to the narrator, just close the door and keep working until you're shift is over, then go home and play The Stanley Parable
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stanley took out his wallet and bought this video game. He installed it, sat at his desk and began pressing buttons. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-If #Severance was a Game!- @benstiller.redhour.com If you like Severance, but haven't played The Stanley Parable, then what are you waiting for? 😃 It's on all platforms. #Gamedev #Gaming
unlabelledView post →The video game "The Stanley Parable" taught me the English phrase "Sweet F.A.", and also that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the English.
unlabelledView post →The Stanley Parable is a very good game well written with a nice touch of humor. It's a little expensive so it's better buying it in sale. I highly recommend this game! 💗
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every now and then I come back to this game (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) It does not start on my new PC so I keep playing it on my old laptop
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Saturday and I am once again streaming! Yippee! Today we're starting a new game gifted to me by someone in the community - The Stanley Parable! Somehow, I don't know anything about this game so we'll see how it goes! ♥️「 twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 」
unlabelledView post →Top 5 video game moments for me is absolutely inclusive of the Stanley Parable Broom Closet, which I think is very informative about my taste and humor.
unlabelledView post →Starting a blind playthrough of The Stanley Parable. I know absolutely NOTHING about this game. People are begging me to play it though. So might be interesting..? HMMM... Come hang everyone <3 Live Now - twitch.tv/aydanfox
unlabelledView post →> Stanley writes a review on steam about his expeirance with the game. He says that the game was bad due to a british guy stuck in his head the time he was in there. Stanley's grammer was not the best surely. So when people looked at the review they did not like it and thought a lazy bum not a professional wrote this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Stanley Parable is a game about choice… except the game has opinions about your choices, and those opinions are extremely judgmental. You play as Stanley, an office worker whose job is to press buttons on a computer. One day, everyone disappears, and instead of questioning reality like a normal person, you immediately start wandering around listening to a narrator who thinks he’s in charge of your life. The narrator tells you what to do. You can follow him. Or you can not follow…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stanley felt so strongly about his love for this game that he just HAD to leave a review of it on Steam. He filled this review with a plethora of positive anecdotes; the review was glowing, detailing Stanley's incredible experience. He bragged on and on about the narrator's impeccable wit, sense of humor, and charming smooth voice. He wrote a review so long and so detailed that it clogged up Steam's servers for everyone worldwide, leading to the permanent shutdown of the platform as a whole. As…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has now been 6 years since I last played The Stanley Parable meaning that I can now safely launch the game to unlock the "Don't play the game for 5 years" achievement (I didn't launch it last year just to be sure 😭 ) Thank you me from 6 years ago for this Christmas gift i guess
unlabelledView post →None optimal door designs. Horrible air flow and insulation, would NOT use in any buildings. The glued together panels would simply shrink over time in the doorframe causing cold air to flow into the office. I would recommend you uninstall this game in boycott of this horrible design flaw!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OH, did you get the BRRROOOOM CLORSET ending? The broom closet ending was my favourite! srsly tho 10/10 game. The narrarators voice is PEAK and there are so many different endings i love it sm
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →📈🗃️Roshan Has To Go To An Important Meeting 🗃️📉 For today's Indie Saturday, I'll be playing through The Stanley Parable. I've known of this game for the longest time but never played it, until NOW!! 🚪🚶 See you all @ 2pm EDT ⏰ https://www.twitch.tv/roshangalaxy
unlabelledView post →I finally 100%ed this game. Now I need to go outside for 10 years in the deluxe version. See y'all in 2036. It's a great game, a fun story. I'm sure other people have written in depth reviews I'm just here to say, I liked it. :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fever Meme - The Stanley Parable Combined With A Rage Simulator | Full Game Playthrough Watch: youtu.be/Eiw-ZlMP2nw
unlabelledView post →Share a pic and the title of a narrative game you love. The Stanley Parable
unlabelledView post →Am I Stanley? Stanley is mean to me. Stanley is everything, and everything is Stanley. At least that’s the general idea behind this bizarre psychological social experiment that someone somehow turned into a video game. The strange thing is… it’s actually really good. The graphics are decent enough, but the real highlight is the narration and the way the game constantly reacts to your choices. The flow of events can either delight you or completely drive you insane depending on how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had the most difficult achievements, and it was fun pursuing them over the years. "The broom closet ending was my favorite."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is proto-Backrooms, long before the actual Backrooms craze started, but a clear inspiration. It's closer to the Black Mirror-esque Backrooms games where you feel hopelessly lost and look for subtle clues, not so much the horror/survival ones where you encounter entities. However, unlike most of these types of games are now, this one is more of a concept piece that lacks a stopping point. It gets compared to Portal a lot, but Portal has a definitive ending. Stanley Parable doesn't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would like to see more games like this The main con is that the game is very short. I highly recommend buying it at least 75% off There is a brand new extended version, don't buy it if you want the newer one. 6/10 pretty cozy and calm game you can play
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Accurate real life simulator *Starts game* *closes office door* *refuse to go outside ever*
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Stanley Parable is an incredible experience. A game commenting on games themselves, their characters, and plot structures. Just be aware this is more walking simulator with some interactive elements, however each playthrough is very quick. If this is your first time playing this, you are in for a treat. You play as the titular Stanley, and you have to make choices. Very specific choices. Very important choices. Or none at all. That, too, is a choice. Kevan Brighting as the Narrator is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s a METAGAME. For a game from over a decade ago, its interaction is surprisingly impressive. Since it’s an older game, some people may encounter crashes when launching it, so I recommend adding -threads 1 in the launch options.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked it! But I am a fan of Superliminal, The Stanley Parable, Exit 8 etc. so I was primed. I would play the video game if they made it.
unlabelledView post →Got an ending that said I should play other games, so I did and just never played it again. Cant decide if that was a negative or a positive but it was accurate. 10/10 wont play again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bad videogame idea: nature survival game that supposedly takes place immediately after the "intended" story of The Stanley Parable
unlabelledView post →so fun, existential, replayable, and quick
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Turned the game into one of the endings from The Stanley Parable
unlabelledView post →Game people, I need something new to play like The Stanley Parable. PLEASE.
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