The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Crows Crows Crows · 2022 · Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Comedy, Walking Simulator, First-Person
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About The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
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Explore a mind-bending office labyrinth where your choices matter and don't matter simultaneously, as an omniscient narrator constantly subverts your expectations and breaks every rule of traditional game design. This expanded remake of the cult classic adds new paths, secrets, and philosophical contradictions while preserving the original's darkly comedic exploration of player agency and free will.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is a first person exploration game. It is an expanded re-imagining of the critically acclaimed, award winning indie game The Stanley Parable from 2013.
When a simple-minded individual named Stanley discovers that the co-workers in his office have mysteriously vanished, he sets off to find answers.
You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will have your choices taken from you. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
What's New?
Everything that was in the original Stanley Parable is here, preserved just like it was back in 2013. But The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe also dramatically expands the world of the original game with new content, new choices, and new secrets to uncover. The labyrinth has just gotten bigger.
In addition, the game has been visually upgraded to reflect modern technology while faithfully preserving the tone of the original game. Accessibility features have also been added to the game, including localization of in-world text, colorblind options, and content warnings.
And just as before, the impeccable voicework of Kevan Brighting will accompany you every step of the way.
In The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, everything you remember has been recreated, yet it's different somehow. We've been here before, haven't we? Is Stanley still the same as he was back then? Or is it you who has changed?
When a simple-minded individual named Stanley discovers that the co-workers in his office have mysteriously vanished, he sets off to find answers.
You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will have your choices taken from you. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
What's New?
Everything that was in the original Stanley Parable is here, preserved just like it was back in 2013. But The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe also dramatically expands the world of the original game with new content, new choices, and new secrets to uncover. The labyrinth has just gotten bigger.
In addition, the game has been visually upgraded to reflect modern technology while faithfully preserving the tone of the original game. Accessibility features have also been added to the game, including localization of in-world text, colorblind options, and content warnings.
And just as before, the impeccable voicework of Kevan Brighting will accompany you every step of the way.
In The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, everything you remember has been recreated, yet it's different somehow. We've been here before, haven't we? Is Stanley still the same as he was back then? Or is it you who has changed?
What Steam players say
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I do not object to the idea that human life has no preassigned cosmic purpose. I lean toward an existentialist view: meaning may not be inherent, but conscious experience, choice, pain, attachment, and responsibility remain real to the people living through them. The universe’s indifference does not require human indifference. My objection is that The Stanley Parable repeatedly slides from criticizing corporate control and materialism into treating ordinary human pursuits—money, knowledge, power, work, achievement, and even the player’s desire to make a meaningful choice—as inherently shallow or ridiculous. That distinction matters. Money is not the meaning of life, but it can pay for medical care, housing, privacy, legal protection, education, and the ability to leave an abusive home or unsafe workplace. Knowledge and power are not merely corrupting ambitions; they can reduce helplessness and allow a person to protect themselves and others. The game presents itself as a conversation about choice, but I found the conversation fundamentally unequal. The designers determine every possible action and then assign a mocking interpretation to the player’s obedience, resistance, curiosi…1 found this helpful
I like to run around and i like to go through doors and i like to click buttons and i like bucket.
honestly the game is amazing it is so worth it to buy it!!
A significant upgrade from the already mindblowing first entry.
8
A great extension of the original with the same charm. Now just have to wait 9 more years for the damn achievement cause I bought it on console at first when it came out. could have already ben 4 years into it but noooooooooo. Least I have a reason to make it to 40 now.
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