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The Stanley Parable’s expanded Ultra Deluxe edition finally arrives in AprilWith loads of new secrets and surprises

With loads of new secrets and surprises

A yellow line meanders through disorderly office in a The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe screenshot.

Several years later than planned,The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxefinally has a release date: April 27th. It’s an “expanded re-imagining” of the surprising and funny and first-person explorer about an office worker who ends up on a surreal adventure probing strange depths and crashing through the fourth wall. Now, his adventure will be even bigger. The devs claim that “the script for the new content is longer than the script for the original game.”

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - Release Date TrailerWatch on YouTube

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - Release Date Trailer

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Along with an updated look and nice accessibility features like colourblind options and content warnings, Ultra Deluxe whams in a whole load of newness. It had initially been expected to launch in 2019, but plans change and here we are.

“Early in development, the plan was just to bringThe Stanley Parableto consoles with a few small tweaks, but as time went on we kept getting more and more excited about what else we could do with the game. We learned what we wanted it to be as we were making it,” the Stanfangang said in today’s announcement.

“Since The Stanley Parable was a game about surprises, we’ve tried to implement new content in ways that players won’t be expecting.”

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is comingto Steamon the 27th of April for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It’ll also be on Switch, PlayStations, and Xboxes.

In the meantime, hey, why not revisit Pip’s chat with Wreden and Pugh aboutthe impossible architecture of The Stanley Parable. And fittingly for a game with oh so many paths to discover, ourThe Stanley Parable reviewcame in 13 different forms.