The Stanley Parable

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I've been playing this recently. This game interests me because it's essentially a game about designing a game. It asks how much freedom a user should have in terms of their actions, compared to limitations which allow for a linear story. The game is about the illusion of choice. It has some amusing gags, such as when you enter the meeting room and there is a guide on being passive-aggressive to your fellow employees and advice on making a corporate PowerPoint playing on a projector.

The game has nineteen endings, although some of those endings are more just one off jokes rather than proper endings. I think my personal favourite so far is the museum ending. This ending allows you to walk around a museum of pre-production materials that went into making the game and various scrapped concepts.

A friend in college had it and I loved what I played of it but never got around to buying it. I didn't do everything and I don't remember a museum ending, but I played it only one time six years ago so I may have forgotten. I remember a minecraft parody and the narrator calling me a heartless b*stard for setting a cardboard baby on fire (I think that was what happened?).

My friend showed me this game, I don't think I could play it though considering I already hide in front of a screen working too much anyway.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I have a Let's Play of this game on my channel. I'm looking forward to the Ultra Deluxe edition.

The suicide ending was the one that got to me. I couldn't help but wait in the room with the star constellations for a bit before actually going through with it.

sounds like the game explore the very question of free will itself.