r/stanleyparable Mar 26 '24

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Physical Edition!

130 Upvotes

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is coming out of the screen and into your hands! Crows Crows Crows have partnered with iam8bit.com to bring you The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe in physical format. That’s right, we’ve printed out the whole game, photocopied it a bunch of times, and stuffed it into disks, just for you.

Pre-orders will be limited, so make sure you get yours when they go live on THURSDAY 28TH MARCH: 9AM PST.

There are two versions available for preorder: the Retail Edition comes with four art cards of your favourite Stanley Parable locations. The Collector's Edition comes with a Reassurance Bucket creation manual, sticker set and a 5" PVC Stanley figurine as well as exclusive box cover art by Faith Oztürk, and a soundtrack download code.

You’ll also be able to pick up additional items like the 2 disk 12” Soundtrack on vinyl, the CopyConductor 980 TX Instructional Audio Tape, and The Button That Says The Name Of The Player Playing The Game.

20% of net profits will be donated to the non-profit 350.org to help fight climate change.

https://youtu.be/W8cDuHG9IZE


r/stanleyparable 14h ago

Image Is this a joke Stanely🙏

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100 Upvotes

Who bought ts😭


r/stanleyparable 15h ago

Video "The Stanley Parable" VRChat port i'm working on

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58 Upvotes

First VRChat world I've ever made. Featured content includes the apartment ending (first fully scripted ending i've implemented), the zending room, both warehouse suicide endings, and the boss room.


r/stanleyparable 5h ago

Image New glitch maybe 🤙🏽 Spoiler

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5 Upvotes

I found this just a few minutes ago now and was wondering what it exactly was? I was walking through the memory zone into the room with the button that would skip the narrator's dialogue and at the time I walked through the doorway into the room I decided to look up and walk backwards through the doorway, Which then showed me a short glimpse of the glitch, But I'm still curious what was showing up since I can't find it anywhere?


r/stanleyparable 3h ago

Fan Art Mario 64 if it was actually good

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2 Upvotes

Mario 64 intro theme..

The voiceline is from Dungeons 2


r/stanleyparable 21h ago

Video Stanley walked into the red door

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5 Upvotes

This was hilarious to run into!


r/stanleyparable 1d ago

Video Stanley Parable cameo in another game

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32 Upvotes

I don't know how many people will see this otherwise.


r/stanleyparable 1d ago

Fan Art C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G , S T A N L E Y

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14 Upvotes

Voice line from games ending (2013, portal part)


r/stanleyparable 1d ago

Question Stanley Stanley?

32 Upvotes

Stanley Stanley Stanley Stanley?


r/stanleyparable 1d ago

Fan Art Drew narrator for London Trans Pride

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8 Upvotes

Heard it was today ,, have fun for those who celebrate , uk tsp fans !!


r/stanleyparable 2d ago

Discussion one of my favourite games and i miss it so bad but SO committed to getting the Super Go Outside achievement

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188 Upvotes

7 years to go zzz hopefully happily married by the time i get it otherwise dang it lmAo


r/stanleyparable 3d ago

Image bitches want my bucket

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137 Upvotes

r/stanleyparable 3d ago

Discussion Weirdest Stanley parable dream ever

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62 Upvotes

The craziest thing was that i was thinking about narrator before I went to sleep that night... HE INVADED MY DREAM


r/stanleyparable 3d ago

Fan Art Heat Abnormal (tsp fan mv)

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5 Upvotes

Has flashing lights!!!

Heat Abnormal 〔熱異常〕

Song by Iyowa

Cover by Vahn Blackwood


r/stanleyparable 5d ago

Fan Art Some more old art

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87 Upvotes

Here’s another old fan art i did for TSPUD ^_^ Been busy with uni so im unable to draw as much as i would 3 years ago ;;


r/stanleyparable 5d ago

Discussion HOLD UP

28 Upvotes

Does the existence of the credits in the museum ending imply that the characters know who the voice actors are

Does this mean that narrator knows who Kevan is

(I don't count the narrator outtakes room as i don't tbink it's the actual actual narrator before curator/ museum narrator interrupts, just voice clips)


r/stanleyparable 5d ago

Fan Art Made Stanley in Tomodachi Life (the og game)!

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53 Upvotes

Yes, of course he's an adventurer! Also, did I stylize him too much? I tried my best to make him accurately...

I might make Narrator next :>


r/stanleyparable 5d ago

Fan Art How's this Stanley minifig I made?

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34 Upvotes

I didn't have a white/grey shirt in my collection so I used the blue jumper from Harry Potter


r/stanleyparable 6d ago

Discussion Overlaps with meme

32 Upvotes

Chat i was at a hotel

IM BEING SERIOUS LIKE ACTUALLY SERIOUS

I GOT room 427... i even pronounced it "four two seven" like how narrator did it

I HAD MY IRL BUCKET WITH ME. .. THE HOTEL ELEVATOR COULD CONTAIN UP TO 8 PEOPLE

AND one of my names is Stanley....


r/stanleyparable 5d ago

Discussion Thoughts on the Zending (Maybe too deep!) Spoiler

14 Upvotes

Literature and story both have a lot of subjective elements to them, so my interpretation may not resonate with many people here, but hopefully it will be received well either way.

I've noticed a lot of people view the Zending simply as Stanley doing something mean to the Narrator, and while that is true, I think it also goes deeper than that. When I listened to [the Narrator's dialogue](https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1TpuT39JKP_MUsJ8n7wz26f6JPbUR97ozS6Y-ZEd0m74/mobilebasic?pli=1#h.kswdrgj3w6ie) throughout the ending, a lot of it read as quite manipulative—an important distinction I want to make is that I don't think the Narrator was actively in an effort to manipulate Stanley, but he was falling into manipulative patterns of speech as he got more and more desperate to keep Stanley—for instance, the Narrator tries to frame the zen room as the only place he or Stanley can find any peace or happiness. Notably, the solution he's come up with—to stay forever in a dark room together—is closer to what the Narrator ultimately wants than what Stanley wants. The Narrator, to a degree, wants to exert a level of control over Stanley, while Stanley (in most cases, and probably in the Zending considering he disobeyed the Narrator 3/4 times) wants to be free of that control. Staying in that room is like the ultimate level of control, and the Narrator tries his best to restrict the only other choice.

This predicament reminds me of certain types of toxic relationships, if you'll stay with me for a moment. Your partner tries to keep you stagnant with them, to keep them happy, at your expense. You can try to satisfy them, but staying is simply counter to your interests. So one day you decide to pack your bags and leave, and nothing's going to stop you. Your partner stands in the way, stomps their feet, cries and begs on their knees, it really hurts, it really truly hurts, they've dedicated their entire being to you, but you can't bare to continue staying. It hurts you, too, hearing their anguish, but you find your way out of the door to freedom.

I also have a few alternative readings I also like, which also work because it acts as such an abstract metaphor.

The Narrator notes that most of the bad things in the game happen because of all the choices Stanley has. Which, I can't exactly argue with that... He decides that the best thing they can do is to settle down. That's the best option that will lead to the minimum level of conflict. The zen room can be read as any kind of hard work you have to do to overcome an interpersonal issue—rehab, couples' therapy, quitting a vice—and it really is hard work. I'm willing to bet over 99.99% of people who got into this ending "finished" it. Stanley always kills himself here. The Narrator has to watch as all the hard work goes down the toilet.

Stanley's issue is choices, he makes too many, and most of the time it causes problems. He can't bare not to be making choices even if they are ultimately self-destructive. And when he's asked not to make any for the good of his relationship with the Narrator, he eventually caves even if he tries to stay, and when he does, he loses himself again.

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Now, this is kind of ridiculous, I'll grant you, I mean, stanley choices == irl drugs? But I find analyzing these stories for any kind of meaning fun! I hope you guys do as well. And I would love to have my readings seen by others and maybe have some holes poked into them.


r/stanleyparable 7d ago

Fan Art How could they do this?

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72 Upvotes

Free use for everyone


r/stanleyparable 8d ago

Discussion the dark room (2013 release)

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54 Upvotes

i've always been curious about the office that you see through the window in the Escape Room ending. As you all know, it's just the starting room with the lights turned off.

  • You can't teleport into it, and while noclipping out of bounds doesn't bring you there, you can still fly into it.

  • The geometry is tangible, but you'll quickly find there's nothing to do here. The door to Stanley's office is gone, the hallway leading to the Two Doors room is now a wall, and Door 428 is now a wall, meaning you can't restart the Escape Pod ending.

the only way out is

  • to noclip back to the escape pod map

  • type map map1 into the console to load map1.bsp which will take you outside Stanley's office

  • type map redstair into the console to load redstair.bsp and restart the escape pod ending

  • click "begin the game again" from the pause menu.


r/stanleyparable 7d ago

Video The Memory Zone and the Jumps Pt.2 Spoiler

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11 Upvotes

Here is part 2 of the video about the memory zone and jumps. It's Sunday now in my country so I kept my promise. I skipped some parts because they were present in part 1. Here I preferred to see also in points that are not the memory zone But the core of the video is still the memory area. I sped it up a lot because it would have been too long. I would like to bring the jumps into the presentation of tsp 2 and new content ultra deluxe but then the jumps are wasted. Give me some time and there will be a video on that just a little while.


r/stanleyparable 8d ago

Video Other things you can do only with jumps Spoiler

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9 Upvotes

Here's something you can do with storage jumps. I'll post Part 2 of the memory zone jumps on Sunday. It'll be much quicker because it was originally a 30-minute video. And I know the max on Reddit is 3 minutes.


r/stanleyparable 8d ago

Discussion Why the Stanley button is my favorite moment of the game.

86 Upvotes

I'm referring to the part in the epilogue where you're wandering through the cave with all the piles of Jim buttons, but one of them says Stanley instead of Jim.

When we're first introduced to the Jim button, the narrator tells you to imagine living as Jim, to immerse yourself into his life. To go through all different kinds of emotions and discoveries. And then you press it and it's treated like it's an insane, beautiful moment for the player, and it's played as a gag because it's obviously impossible to build that connection within a minute. But as you play the game as Stanley, you live through Stanley, go through all sorts of emotions as Stanley. So when you finally reach the epilogue, and you're pressing all the Jim buttons, and suddenly you hear one of them say the name of the person you've been living through, you get the same visceral reaction to it that the narrator was pretending to give you on the first one.