2013 · Comedy · Walking Simulator · Satire
How long isThe Stanley Parable?
by Galactic Cafe
3.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 2 hours and 6 hours
The Stanley Parable among the 109 walking sims here
The whole tier list#26
of 109
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 47%
- got past 2 hours
- +11 on the kind's 36%
- 7%
- past 20 hours
- +6 on the kind's 1%
- 79%
- launched it
- +23 on the kind's 55%
- 295
- libraries own it
- 1 in 8 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Exceptionally loved: 96% recommend it past the refund window, better reviewed than 147 of 182 walking sims here.
83% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
95% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
97% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
98% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
97% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
97% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
Does The Stanley Parable hold up?
Holds steady

At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 100 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of The Stanley Parable tell you?
In the first two hours83%recommend it
After that96%recommend it
8 in 100 said no: 3 after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 3.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 2 hours and 6 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 46,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 95% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
27% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 83% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 41% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
4days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 3.5 hours on Wednesday, November 18.
Half of its reviewers had played between 2 and 6 hours: Nov 16 to Nov 20 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is The Stanley Parable worth it?
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One hour, at list price
The Stanley Parable
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 3.5 h
- walking sim rate
- $3.99/h
- 3.5 h at that rate
- $14
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Stanley Parable worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical walking sim charges: $4.28 an hour
Loved
96% recommend it after the refund windowmost walking sims: 89%
Gets played
79% of owners here have played itmost walking sims: 61%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 3.5 hours come to $4.28 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of The Stanley Parable costs about what the typical one of 182 walking sims here charges $3.99.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (walking sims) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play The Stanley Parable today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 3 more.
- todayPC2022as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
- todayXbox Series2022as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
- todayPS42022as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
- todayPS52022as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
- todayXbox One2022as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
- todaySwitch2022as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
- todayiPhone2024as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Stanley Parable came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like The Stanley Parable?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Stanley Parable, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Stanley Parable would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@tyr holds this page
- 1st
@tyr38 h - 2nd
@tumble30 h - 3rd
@definecoffee27 h - 4th
@eltorga4.4 h - 5th
@ash4.1 h - 6th
@chlo2.8 h - 7th
@tutel2.8 h - 8th
@poor-leno1.8 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with The Stanley Parable?
1 in 10
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like The Stanley Parable
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
The Stanley Parable, but free to play, and a quarter of the hours
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
The Stanley Parable, but cyberpunk, and set in the Cold War
Loved · 94%Games like Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
The Beginner's Guide
The Stanley Parable, but emotional, and half the hours
Liked · 88%Games like The Beginner's Guide
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Stanley Parable, but a mystery, and even better loved
Loved · 96%Games like What Remains of Edith Finch
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Stanley Parable: a kind of game it is that The Stanley Parable is not, a feature its tags carry that The Stanley Parable's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.