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The player has a first-person perspective, and can travel and interact with certain elements of the environment, such as pressing buttons or opening doors, but has no combat or other action-based controls. The game begins in a mysteriously empty office. Critics praised the game's narrative and commentary on player choice and decision-making. It is available on consoles in addition to previously supported platforms and it includes additional content, as well as further refined graphics.īoth the original mod and its two remakes have received critical praise from journalists.

A further expanded edition titled The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe was released on 27 April 2022.

Later updates to the game added support for macOS on 19 December 2013, and for Linux on 9 September 2015. It was announced and approved via Steam Greenlight in 2012, and was released on 17 October 2013, for Microsoft Windows. The remake recreated many of the original mod's choices while adding new areas and story pathways, as well as overhauling the game's graphics entirely. Together with Pugh, Wreden later released a stand-alone remake using the Source engine under the Galactic Cafe studio name. The Stanley Parable was originally released on 31 July 2011, as a free modification for Half-Life 2 by Wreden. Depending on the choices made, the player will encounter different endings before the game resets to the beginning. The player may contradict the narrator's directions, which if disobeyed will then be incorporated into the story.

As the story progresses, the player is confronted with diverging pathways. In the game, the player guides a silent protagonist named Stanley alongside narration by British actor Kevan Brighting. The game carries themes such as choice in video games, the relationship between a game creator and player, and predestination/fate. The Stanley Parable is a story-based video game designed and written by developers Davey Wreden and William Pugh.

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