The Stanley Parable starts in a standard cubicle in an artfully bland-looking office, cursor blinking on the screen of a beige monitor. I didn’t, as it happens, but this has a much more sophisticated version of that concept, no longer made of Half-Life assets and greatly expanded by creator Davey Wreden in collaboration with William Pugh.
You might know The Stanley Parable from its 2011 iteration as a Half-Life 2 mod. It’s funny, self-referential, surprising, and sometimes uncomfortable to play, a tale told not through one linear story but instead through many different branching paths that twists the illusion of control that video games work so hard to give us. Like Dear Esther and Thirty Flights of Loving, The Stanley Parable is an experiment with interactive narrative, another attempt to find a new form of storytelling unique to video games.
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