The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Explore in first person as Stanley, an office worker searching for vanished colleagues. Ultra Deluxe builds on the original adventure with new choices and secrets, while making the limits of player choice part of the story.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.9 / 10
About this game
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe begins with an empty workplace: Stanley discovers that his colleagues have vanished and sets out to find answers. You explore from a first-person viewpoint, accompanied by Kevan Brighting's narration. Making choices—and having control over those choices challenged—is part of the game's stated premise. This edition includes the original game's content alongside new material, choices and secrets. Progress is framed around exploration and discovery, with the question of who controls the experience woven into the adventure itself. Ultra Deluxe is the expanded game, so the added material sits within the same work rather than requiring the original as a separate starting point. The Switch edition also includes colorblind options and content warnings.
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AI review
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Best approached with curiosity about what a game can do with your choices, rather than a need to remain in control.
The combination of first-person exploration, narration and a premise that questions player agency may suit people who enjoy examining the act of playing. Returning players also have new choices and secrets to investigate within the expanded work.
Strengths
- Treating choice itself as material may give ordinary exploration a second layer of meaning.
- Retaining the original while adding new material offers returning players something beyond revisiting the same content.
Weaknesses
- Players who want their decisions to remain fully under their control may find the stated loss of agency at odds with that preference.
Who it is for: Curious players who enjoy narrated exploration and stories that question the player's role.
Play notes: The premise explicitly includes having choices taken away; expecting unrestricted agency would work against that design.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension New choices and secrets within retained original content may favor an exploratory mindset over treating the edition as a simple repeat. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Exploration combined with challenged agency may turn choosing an action into an opportunity to question what that choice means. | Reviewed | 8.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Narration accompanying an apparently emptied workplace may give the search a conversational presence despite the missing colleagues. | Reviewed | 9.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Colorblind options and content warnings offer relevant accommodations, although those features alone do not establish suitability for every individual need. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Crows Crows Crows
- Publisher
- Crows Crows Crows
- Release date
- Apr 27, 2022
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Adventure · Primary genre
- Tags
- Puzzle SolvingLinear LevelsSolo-friendlyMain Story 10–20 HoursStory-drivenSlow BurnThird PersonExplorationInvestigation3D Graphics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideApr 27, 2022
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideApr 27, 2022
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Sources
- www.stanleyparable.comSource revision: 1
- www.stanleyparable.com