Every The Stanley Parable game, ranked
All 2 The Stanley Parable games we hold, spanning 2013 to 2022: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 81,821 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: The Stanley Parable (GamingPickz Score 8.2), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The The Stanley Parable games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best The Stanley Parable games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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The Stanley Parable
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
8.2GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceThe Stanley Parable at a glance Released 2013 Studio Galactic Cafe Player sentiment 92% positive of 45,775 Critics 88/100 Price $14.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 3 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 92% shrinks to 91.9 on 45,775 reviews, then blends with the 88 critic aggregate, giving 8.2.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 3 GB.
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
8.1GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceThe Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe at a glance Released 2022 Studio Crows Crows Crows Player sentiment 94% positive of 36,046 Critics No aggregate Price $24.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 5 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 94% shrinks to 93.9 on 36,046 reviews, giving 8.1. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 5 GB.
Best and worst entry
The best-received The Stanley Parable game we can score is The Stanley Parable at 8.2. The lowest is The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe at 8.1, a 0.1-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: The Stanley Parable at $14.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: The Stanley Parable, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the The Stanley Parable entries on Steam:
- Verified: The Stanley Parable, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 The Stanley Parable games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The The Stanley Parable series, game by game
Every The Stanley Parable game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2013
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. (Steam)
Reception
Within two weeks of its release, the mod was downloaded more than 90,000 times. Responses of most players were positive, and Wreden became "an overnight internet sensation among hardcore gamers". The Stanley Parable mod was acclaimed by journalists as a thought-provoking game, praising it for being a highly experimental game that only took a short amount of time for the player to experience. (Wikipedia)
- 2022
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. (Steam)
Reception
Within two weeks of its release, the mod was downloaded more than 90,000 times. Responses of most players were positive, and Wreden became "an overnight internet sensation among hardcore gamers". The Stanley Parable mod was acclaimed by journalists as a thought-provoking game, praising it for being a highly experimental game that only took a short amount of time for the player to experience. (Wikipedia)
The Stanley Parable, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
The Stanley Parable vs other series
How The Stanley Parable stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many The Stanley Parable games are there?
We hold 2 The Stanley Parable games in the catalogue, released between 2013 and 2022. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which The Stanley Parable game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, The Stanley Parable rates highest at 8.2. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the The Stanley Parable games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2013 to 2022. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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