In light of The Stanley Parable’s unprecedented success, shifting far more units that the indie develop team expected, we thought we would provide a definitive guide to the game’s many endings.The Stanley Parable is an interactive fiction tale, regaled like no other. You star as Stanley, a brainwashed office worker, tasked with overseeing data on a monitor and mindlessly inputting information into a computer. The fictional account is detailed – in the most minutia of detail – by the narrator. Kevin Brighting does an absolutely exceptional job of voicing the narrator; this, combined with some truly off-the-wall writing and genius game design, is essentially what makes The Stanley Parable so utterly engrossing.WARNING: Please be aware this article contains major spoilers for The Stanley Parable. Read on at your own risk.Trundling along through the empty hallways of a deserted office block, you have only the narrator to keep you company, who will incessantly describe Stanley’s movements before, during and after completing them.When the narrator explains the action that Stanley is destined to make, and you elect not to obey his instructions, he responds accordingly. Initially, it can be something as simple Diagram showing the complex nature of The Stanley Parable endings, plotted into a flow chart.as the narrator telling the audience that Stanley “chose the left door.” When you do not comply with his story, he makes changes on the fly to compensate. If the player continues to defy the narrator’s chronicles, he becomes increasingly irked, as evidenced by the following line:“Stanley was so bad at following directions; it’s incredible he wasn’t fired long ago.”Once the player reaches a particular ending, they are eventually transported back to the sterile, dull office walls, where Stanley began his journey.
You are then free to try and explore the corridor-filled, mind-bending world of The Stanley Parable, in search of the other canon endings.Although the narrator’s intentions are clear – to funnel the player along a linear, pre-defined path – The game’s designers actively encourage freedom, presenting the player with a myriad of different choices. Depending upon the direction the player decides to head towards, the narrator adjusts accordingly, until he actually stops predicting Stanley’s actions altogether and appeals directly to the character (i.e. You, the player).This provides for a game that boasts a huge number of different endings, each with their own entertaining spin. In light of this, we thought we would scour the net for all of the available endings to The Stanley Parable to provide a comprehensive ending guide.
The Freedom EndingTo achieve the “freedom ending,” the player must travel along a linear path towards the “set of two open doors.” Selecting the left door, the player will then eventually reach the empty meeting room. Continue on through the next set of corridors, climb the stairwell and enter the office of Stanley’s boss.After mashing in the 2-8-4-5 pin number into the keypad on the wall, shuffle on through into the secret passage and take the elevator down to the “mind control facility.” Follow the gangways to the elevator, which takes you towards the hub of mind control operations, and then enter the “power facility” room. After shutting down the facility, the freedom ending will present itself.Explosion EndingIn this ending, follow the afore-mentioned directions to reach the mind control facility. This time, instead of powering down the facility, turn it on. This triggers a countdown timer for detonation of a nuclear bomb. Preliminary reports seem to suggest that there is no way of turning off the detonators, and your fate is sealed for good.The following YouTube video was uploaded by James Heaney from GameFront, demonstrating what happens in the event the player attempts to put the machine into action (skip ahead to 5:38 to see an abridged version of the ending):Escape/Museum EndingAgain, following most of the same directions, travel towards the mind control facility. However, prior to actually entering the facility, make a left.
For Kotaku reader Chad Oliver, it’s The Stanley Parable’s Kevan Brighting, and he’s narrating his marriage proposal. If you play games, you’ve thought about which voice actor you want to. This is a voice pack that allows you to have The Narrator from The Stanley Parable narrate for one or more of your soldiers. This voice pack contains 385 different lines and should work with just about every situation your soldiers might find themselves in. Kevan Brighting, an award winning voice over actor for his role The Narrator in The Stanley Parable, gave life to the creator Davey Wreden‘s wry and brilliant script. Brighting’s work was considered a strong element in the success of the game, providing the right dry British wit to the complex narration.
Painted in red on the wall should be a message that proclaims “escape.” At the end of a long, uninterrupted corridor is an aperture in the floor. Fall through this duct and you will be moved along a conveyer belt towards a mechanical crusher.The crusher device will stop, just before pulverizing Stanley into a human slushy, opening up a gangway beneath him.