The game is not here to fight you; it is inviting you to dance.
THE STANLEY PARABLE 2!
The Stanley Parable is a game in which you explore an office building as an employee named Stanley; the only caveat being that all of your coworkers are nowhere to be seen.

First released in 2011 as a Half Life 2 mod, then released as its own independent game 2 years after, The Stanley Parable quickly cemented its place as a beloved game known for its quirky humour and charming narration. On 2022, a revamp of the game was released, titled The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, bringing a bundle of new endings and features to be explored.

The game is riddled with endings, jokes, and paradoxes, waiting to be found.

My experience with the game

I've actually been wanting to play The Stanley Parable for a couple of years but never gotten around to it. But then I managed to get it recently and I had a blast!

I previously saw it on social media and knew it to be the game with a yellow line that appears a lot, thus setting the stage for one of my fave characters being the Adventure Line™ lol.

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The first ending I got was the elevator ending. See the thing is I was trying to play the role of someone who reaaaally wanted to piss narrator off while still following instructions. I didn't know of any endings beforehand so my goal was to complete the game how the narrator intended it to but annoying him along the way. Before this I actually watched a couple minutes of jerma playing this game, before he reached any ending, and I remember he stayed in the broom closet a bit prompting some funny dialogue from the Narrator. This amused me! I wanted to play the game but I didn't want to be spoiled so I closed the stream and wait like 2 years to actually buy it. And the first thing I did was trap myself in the broom closet. I loooved exhausting all the dialogue from him. I made sure to click EVERYTHING so I didn't miss anything, even though it did not progress the story in any way. And he sounded so mad when I got on the elevator before the Mind Control Facility so I had to keep making him angrier until I exhausted all dialogue options, having more fun as he gets more and more sarcastic about it. What I didn't know was that this was an actual seperate ending that I just got. Needless to say from then on I was hooked.

My favourite endings, however, are the Bucket Apartment ending, the Figley ending, and the Real Person ending.

Overall I'd give the game a 4/5. I haven't been this charmed by a video game since Deltarune...

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