The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $6.40, only fair at $24.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $11.90/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.74. That was March 2026. 32 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. $6.40 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 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 The Novelist ($4.99, scores 32).
Steam's global achievement data puts 74 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 4,553 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.
The drop-off
94% start to 74% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
73 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Stanley was pretty bored. So, he sat down at his computer and saw critically aclaimed game 'The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe' was on sale! He decided; 'what's the worst that could happen?' Stanley spent the next hour playing 'The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe'. Stanley enjoyed playing 'The Stanley Parable Ultra Delux' so much, he decided to write a positive review on Steam! He figured that it could contribute to...
the narrarator is so wteh narrarator is iconic and hillariously mean he will cook you if you don't listen XD
I'm doney with the funny In all seriousness, if you're unfamiliar with The Stanley Parable, I can safely recommend this version. Absolutely worth playing. It's in tact here. (Also, if you are a new player, make sure you go to the original Stanley Parable's store page and download the demo. It's its own thing.) For those who have already played before, and wondering if it's worth it to pick up this version... I mean...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1703340/the-stanley-parable-ultra-deluxeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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