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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is coming in April

It's been quite the wait, but The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe now has an official release date, and it's coming out soon. The expanded edition of the groundbreaking 2013 indie game will launch April 27 on Steam, and it'll be adding a wealth of new content to Stanley's introspective adventure.

The Stanley Parable is a game that in ages past was somewhat derisively called a 'walking simulator,' but it's a rather biting and stark look at the fundamental ideas of game design and the relationships players form with game worlds and mechanics. Playing the game involves interrogating your own inclination to either follow the directions the game provides or attempt to break the rules, and The Stanley Parable's dryly funny narrator remarks on each decision you make.

As we've reported, the 'Ultra Deluxe' edition of the Stanley Parable will include new content, meaning new adventures for Stanley and the long-suffering narrator, and new endings to discover. Originally scheduled for 2019, it was delayed to 2020 - but as we all know, that was a bit of a weird year for release dates.

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Release Date

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, the expanded re-imagining of the critically acclaimed, award winning indie game The Stanley Parable comes to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S on April 27, 2022!

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe dramatically expands the world of the original game with new content, new choices, and new secrets for you to uncover.

From now on and until release, we’ll be releasing weekly updates, starting with the return of The Stanley Parable Helpful Development Showcase. We'll be sending that out via our email list which you can subscribe to here!

As always, you can really help us by getting the word out and making the game more visible: Wishlist the game if you've not already and tell your friends, community, coworkers and family. We’ve worked on this project for years and we really appreciate the support!

I’m sure you’ve all got a lot of questions about what you can expect from The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. Since The Stanley Parable is a game about surprises, we've tried to implement new content in ways that players won't be expecting. The script for this new content is longer than the entire original game.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will mess with your mind in new ways this April

It's been nearly ten years since The Stanley Parable stuck a fork into our brains and twirled it around like a bowl of spaghetti. The first-person adventure, a seemingly simple story of an employee dutifully following an offscreen narrator's instructions, quickly branched off into absurd, baffling, hilarious, and sometimes disturbing pathways as it explored the nature of choice and free will in video games...
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The Stanley Parable's expanded Ultra Deluxe edition finally arrives in April

Several years later than planned, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe finally has a release date: April 27th. It's an "expanded re-imagining" of the surprising and funny and first-person explorer about an office worker who ends up on a surreal adventure probing strange depths and crashing through the fourth wall. Now, his adventure will be even bigger. The devs claim that "the script for the new content is longer than the script for the original game."

During the Game Awards in 2018, an expanded version of entirely serious office-life drama The Stanley Parable was announced with a release date of 2019. As that year drew to a close, the release was pushed back to 2020, "probably before summer, but it sort of depends on the specifics of how development goes". That didn't work out either. News of its delay to 2021 was delivered via borrowed delay announcements from other games. By this point, nobody was taking the date seriously...
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