The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9960% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $11.90/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 36,446
- Genre rank
- Top 13% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.1h
- To 100%
- 12.7h 6.0x the story
- Finish
- 73% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.74 March 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 28 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 73% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
33 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. $6.39 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 13 percent. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Stanley Parable ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Myst ($34.99, scores 43).
More about The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Steam's global achievement data puts 73 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 4,584 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
2.1 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 28 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's not creepy at all (except on the way to the escape pod), and I really loved the Narrator too-not because of his narration, but because of his witty jokes (I thanked him for existing). For the old negative reviews of the very first Stanley Parable, I won't forgive them easily because they berated the Narrator for talking at length. That's because they didn't get the gist of it! Apart from the slideshows and...
2 more reviews
I complete the game but only one achievement left which is not to play for 10 years, see ya 8/10
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Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1703340/the-stanley-parable-ultra-deluxeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.