

One day, Stanley looks up from his desk to find all his co-workers gone and his office deserted.

But I think it also has a lot to say about everything.Įssentially, The Stanley Parable is the story of a man named Stanley (surprise), a mundane office worker in a mundane, soul-killing job that involves sitting at a computer terminal and pressing the buttons he’s told to press.

The Stanley Parable, originally a Half Life 2 mod, has a lot to say about games. Of all the games that comment on themselves – and it seems like there are more and more of those – I won’t say that The Stanley Parable is the best, but I definitely haven’t played another that made its intentions more blatantly clear or went for what it was after so aggressively.
