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This first-person adventure game, released in 2013, offers a comedic narrative experience. Developed and published by Galactic Cafe, it has garnered 40,006 Steam reviews with 92% positive feedback. Its unique approach to player choice and storytelling has made it a notable indie release.
Overview
The Stanley Parable is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Galactic Cafe and published by Galactic Cafe. On Steam it has gathered 45,536 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Galactic Cafe with publisher Galactic Cafe is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.7 million to 6.4 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Stanley Parable can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
45,536
Positive
92%
Steam appid
221910
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.02.7M to 6.4M
units (median: 4.6M)
≈ $23.4M to $54.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Stanley Parable at roughly 2.7 million to 6.4 million copies, with a median around 4.6 million, derived from its 45,536 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $39.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $9.43Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.43 to $14.99, averaging $14.15 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.43 on 2026-03-29.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
ComedyNarrationIndieWalking SimulatorFirst-PersonFunnyPsychologicalSatireDynamic NarrationAdventureMultiple EndingsExplorationSingleplayerChoices MatterStory RichShortSurrealAtmosphericPuzzleCasual
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Stanley Parable sold?
- indielist estimates The Stanley Parable has sold between 2,732,160 and 6,375,040 units (median 4,553,600), derived from its 45,536 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Stanley Parable?
- The Stanley Parable was developed by Galactic Cafe and published by Galactic Cafe.
- When was The Stanley Parable released?
- The Stanley Parable was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does The Stanley Parable have on Steam?
- The Stanley Parable has 45,536 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Stanley Parable within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Galactic Cafe's other releases and Galactic Cafe's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Stanley Parable sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Stanley Parable page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.