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The Stanley Parable

by Galactic Cafe

  • Released Oct 17, 2013
  • $14.99
  • 1 h to beat
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

92%positive reviews

42,414 positive3,461 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Clever, surprising narration with multiple endings

  • Strong sense of humour and meta commentary

Cons

  • Repetitive and short once endings are seen

  • Narrator can feel patronising

Mixed

  • Some call it a perfect piece of art, others find it dull after a while

Media

Trailer (YouTube)

System requirements

Minimum:

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

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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…

Ratings

  • 84IGDB players994 ratings
  • 89Critics9 reviews
  • 86Overall1,003 scores

Time to beat

  • 1.2 hStory onlyto the credits
  • 2.7 hStory and extraswith side content
  • 6.1 hCompletionist100%

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Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)
Turkish
Ukrainian

Links

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