The player may contradict the narrator's directions, which if disobeyed will then be incorporated into the story. As the story progresses, the player is confronted with diverging pathways. The player guides a silent protagonist named Stanley alongside narration by British actor Kevan Brighting. Later updates to the game added support for macOS on December 19, 2013, and for Linux on September 9, 2015. It was announced and approved via Steam Greenlight in 2012, and was released on October 17, 2013, for Microsoft Windows. The remake included new story elements and upgraded graphics. Together with Pugh, Wreden later released a stand-alone remake using the Source engine under the Galactic Cafe studio name. It was originally released on July 31, 2011, as a free modification for Half-Life 2 by Wreden. The game carries themes such as choice in video games, the relationship between a game creator and player and predestination/fate. Give people a reason to talk, that's all we aimed for, and the rest sorted itself out.The Stanley Parable is an interactive drama video game designed and written by developers Davey Wreden and William Pugh. 'We were able to get away with saying nothing about the main game because by the time the main game actually launched, the name itself was on a lot of peoples' minds.

That seems like too good a deal to risk going without. For an extra two months work, we get an entire second game's worth of press. But let me propose: we spent two years making The Stanley Parable.

'To be sure, not everyone will have the ability to do this, nor does this approach work for every style of game. 'Essentially we got the press equivalent of two video game launches,' Wreden continued. The same was true of the demo, which was downloaded as many as 200,000 times and received a large amount of press attention. 'Our focus was always on creating content that was on its own fun for people to experience and to be a part of, with essentially 0 per cent of the design aimed at trying to get the game to sell.

'If you make the marketing material interesting on its own, it's irrelevant whether it 'sells' your game,' Wreden said. Rather, Wreden used in-game assets to create entirely new footage that captured 'the spirit' of the source. The Stanley Parable had five pre-release trailers, not one of which featured any footage from the finished game. In a long post on the game's blog, indie developer Davey Wreden revealed that the 100,000 units sold were, 'a lot more than we were expecting.' One of the main drivers of that success, Wreden claimed, was the game's unique trailers and demo. The Stanley Parable sold more than 100,000 units within days of its launch, largely thanks to its creator's hands-on approach to marketing

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