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.
1. To download, click the button on the right. You’ll be taken to the download page.
2. On the download page, click 'Download' and wait for the file to finish downloading.
3. Once The Stanley Parable has finished downloading, right-click the .rar file and select 'Extract to current folder'.(If you run into any errors while extracting, make sure you’re using WinRAR or 7-Zip.)
4. Open the unzipped folder, find the .exe file, and double click it to run. (If there's a _readme.txt file in the folder, it's probably worth checking out.)
5. Enjoy. If you get any missing .dll errors, check for a 'Redist' or '_CommonRedist' folder and install everything inside.