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  • The Stanley Parable Demo is Now Available

    The Stanley Parable began its life as a wildly successful mod for Half-Life 2. It grew in popularity so much that a full stand-alone title was the ultimate goal.

    Today, the demo for the stand-alone version of The Stanley Parable has been released. Next week on October 17, the full game will be released.
    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.

    The demo can be downloaded through Steam. It, from what I hear, does not contain story from the main game so you should be free to play it without fear of any spoilers for the full game!

    • cikame
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      cikame commented
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      I wouldn't quite relate it to Antichamber which was a pure puzzle game, the original mod was more about following the narrative and seeing where it takes you... or not following the narrative, aw geez now i sound like the designer.

    • K-16
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      K-16 commented
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      No no, I follow what you're saying and it appears the Steam store page carries the same description (so it's consistent with the original mod). I was wondering if this game uses similar mechanics to Antichamber and presents them in a different way, such as the aforementioned dynamic narrative of interactive fiction instead of a pure puzzle game.

    • Shawn Zipay
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      Shawn Zipay commented
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      I did have a full playthrough of the demo recorded and uploaded but YouTube has decided to keep it stuck as processing for the past... oh, going on 19 hours now.


    • K-16
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      K-16 commented
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      Looking forward to it. And here I naively thought removing the video responses feature would ease up on the processing delays.

    • Shawn Zipay
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      Shawn Zipay commented
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      It's been about 20 hours now, I'm not going to bother with it anymore. I'm going to just delete it. This is just pathetic, even by YouTube's already crap standards.
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