The Stanley Parable

"This isn't a challenge," the narrator sneers during one of the game's many possible endings. "It's a tragedy. You wanted to control this world, that's fine, but I'm going to destroy it first." To assign a review score to "The Stanley Parable" would...

The Stanley Parable is not a game, it is a directed experience where you never actually win, where your choices are mere illusions and the result is almost always something bad. It plays with the notion of choice and rebellion, it pokes fun at other...

The Stanley Parable is steeped in videogame knowledge, history, affection and contempt. It'll make you laugh, it'll make you wince, it'll make you reflect on just what the hell you're doing with your time, and it'll make you play it again and again and...

More ironically, this game about game endings doesn't have one of its own. Having run through my internal checklist of possible paths, I'm now left poking around for possible secrets. And so The Stanley Parable ends on a whimper, but to have it any other way would spoil the frequent bangs along the way.

Effortlessly inventive, frequently surprising and consistently hilarious. The Stanley Parable shows how to make a story about game...

Even if it wasn't so singularly original, The Stanley Parable is a masterfully executed piece of storytelling. Expanding the medium seems to be a misnomer; rather, it has helped define its own...

I have always been someone who wants to go the "wrong" way first in games. When I sense that a game is trying to usher me down a particular path, to get me to run from left to right or maybe to charge straight ahead, I need to satisfy my instinct to go...