The Stanley Parable
Fair · Narrative · 2013
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; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $9.99/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 45,879
- Critics
- 88 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.5h
- To 100%
- 9.2h 6.1x the story
- Finish
- 79% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.25 April 2020
- Sale every
- 61d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 21 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 79% 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
It has been discounted 66 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $3.96. The record reaches that level 21 times.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (free, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe ($24.99, scores 60).
More about The Stanley Parable
Steam's global achievement data puts 79 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; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 10,360 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.5 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 6.1 times as long.
At 1.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Overall Rating: 8.8/10 Completion: Achieved Perfect Game Overall Opinion: It's so refreshing, honestly the best choice-based game I've ever played! I came into it from Dr. Langeskov, and it'd been sitting on my list for a while too. Really glad I finally gave it a go, and I'm 100% jumping into the Ultra Deluxe edition next. Narrative & Storytelling: 9.5/10 I really love it! The Narrator constantly bickering at you...
2 more reviews
Hilarious attitude. Big fan. But I'm such a novice with computer games I had to look up how to use keyboard controls, and because I referenced this game specifically, I learned something I decided to apply when I played. I'm not going to tell you what it is, however. Only that you shouldn't believe everything that annoying English voice tells you. Go Stanley!
it's been 6 years since i last played this game, about to get that achievement i always wanted
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
The Stanley Parable scores 62/100 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/221910/the-stanley-parableReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.