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The Stanley Parable

Original title: The Stanley Parable - October 17, 2013
The Stanley Parable
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Director:Davey Wreden
Studio:Galactic Cafe
Stars:Kevan Brighting, Davey Wreden, Aviva Pinchas - Full View
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Award
Game
Independent Games Festival Audience Award
Winner
2014
Award
Game
British Academy Games Award for Debut Game
Nominee
2014

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Game Details
DeveloperIGDB
Galactic Cafe
PublisherIGDB
Galactic Cafe
Studio
Galactic Cafe
GenresIGDB
Adventure, Indie
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux
Release DateIGDB
October 17, 2013
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
88
Game Engine
Source

The Stanley Parable is a first-person exploration game which ponders questions related to player agency, narrative pacing, escapism through gaming, objective-driven game design, authorial intent, and the conflict of interest between players and game creators.

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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. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. This world was not made for you to understand.

But as you explore, slowly, meaning begins to arise, the paradoxes might start to make sense, perhaps you are powerful after all. The game is not here to fight you; it is inviting you to dance.

Based on the award-winning 2011 Source mod of the same name, The Stanley Parable returns with new content, new ideas, a fresh coat of visual paint, and the stunning voicework of Kevan Brighting. For a more complete and in-depth understanding of what The Stanley Parable is, please try out the free demo.

Source: Steam

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Crew & Contributors 4

Time to Beat

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Data aggregated from 5 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 27.08.2026
Time to Beat
Main Story1h
Main + Extras3h
Completionist6h

Data from IGDB

Language Support
Language
AudioSubUI
English
Portuguese (Portugal)
Spanish (Spain)
French
Dutch
German
Polish
Danish
Italian
Russian
Ukrainian
Turkish
Spanish - Spain
Portuguese - Portugal

Source: IGDB + Steam, store.steampowered.com

Content Rating
Violence
GRAC 12+
ClassInd: 14
IGRS: 13
USK (DE): 6
Game Features
Single-player
Steam Achievements
Full controller support
Captions available
Steam Cloud
Remote Play on Phone
Remote Play on Tablet
Remote Play on TV
Family Sharing
System Requirements
Minimum
OS:Windows XP/Vista/7/8
CPU:3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
RAM:2 GB RAM
GPU: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:DirectX 9.0c compatible
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Data aggregated from 5 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 27.08.2026