The Stanley Parable
Short description
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.
- Developer
- Galactic Cafe
- Publisher
- Galactic Cafe, Klei Publishing
- Release
- Thu, Oct 17, 2013
- Price
- $14.99
- Reviews
- 40,335
- Positive
- 92%
- Followers
- 70,629
- Owners (estimated)
- 2M – 5M
- Concurrent players
- 21
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie
- Features
- Full controller support, Captions available, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play on TV
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $13.85, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 8% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
82 data points since Aug 3, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 293 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2013 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $2.25 on Apr 24, 2020.
Similar games that found an audience
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist | Crows Crows Crows 2 titles | 5 | − Funny + Free to Play | Free | 151 | 95% | Fri, Dec 04, 2015 | n/a |
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe | Crows Crows Crows 2 titles | 4 | − Indie − Funny + Multiple Endings + Choices Matter | $24.99 | 34,460 | 94% | Wed, Apr 27, 2022 | $36.1m $23.3m – $46.6m |
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The Beginner's Guide | Everything Unlimited Ltd. first game | 4 | − Comedy − Funny + Story Rich + Atmospheric | $9.99 | 19,988 | 89% | Thu, Oct 01, 2015 | $8.3m $4.6m – $9.3m |
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THE CORRIDOR | Thomas Mackinnon 2 titles | 4 | − Indie − First-Person + Singleplayer + Psychological | $1.99 | 2,988 | 95% | Fri, Dec 04, 2020 | $183k $109k – $183k |
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Antihorror | HFM Games 13 titles | 4 | − Narration − First-Person + Action + Horror | $1.99 | 211 | 72% | Wed, Jul 27, 2016 | $13k $6k – $132k |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.