The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe invites players to play as Stanley, a simple office worker. You navigate a world where colleagues vanish mysteriously, and every decision leads to unforeseen consequences. You can opt-in to content warnings in the game itself, allowing you to skip certain areas of content without losing out on achievements. Narrative themes include existentialism, suicide, and multiple endings. Due to the multiple endings, many items here are marked as optional since you could avoid them if you do not play to achieve multiple / all endings.

• Release date: 04-27-2022
• Developer: Crows Crows Crows
• Publisher: Crows Crows Crows
• Platforms: Linux, MacOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Dogs

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  There is a cardboard cutout of a puppy that can get eaten by piranhas in a particularly obscure ending.

  • Is avoidable

• Misc. Animals & Critters

  Piranhas

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  There is a cardboard cutout of a puppy that can get eaten by piranhas in a particularly obscure ending.

  • Is avoidable

Crime

• Being Held Against Will

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  The player is restrained in a small metal cage in the Museum ending.

  • Is avoidable

• Explosions & Bombs

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  In the Explosion ending, the Narrator tortures Stanley by trapping him in a dangerous situation and watching him struggle to escape. The entire facility is destroyed by exploding nuclear reactors. In the Zending, Stanley tortures the Narrator by repeatedly hurting himself to ruin the Narrator's happy ending, or by trapping him in eternal solitude in the Skip Button ending.

  • Is avoidable

• Torture

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  In the Explosion ending, the Narrator tortures Stanley by trapping him in a dangerous situation and watching him struggle to escape. In the Zending, Stanley tortures the Narrator by repeatedly hurting himself to ruin the Narrator's happy ending, or by trapping him in eternal solitude in the Skip Button ending.

  • Is avoidable

Death & Loss

• Abandonment

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  The skip button ending

  • Is avoidable

• Death of Parent

  Debatable

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  One of the prompts in the apartment ending is to read your kids a story, implying that Stanley is a father. Stanley dies in several endings. Given that the Narrator says that Stanley's wife isn't real, however, it's debatable that the kids are real either.

  • Is avoidable

• Death of pet

  Easy-to-miss

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  In a easy-to-miss corner of the Memory Zone, there is a small rock with "In Loving Memory: Little Stanley" engraved on it, along with a small photo of a presumably deceased pet.

  • Is avoidable

• Suicide

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  You can hold 'F' on PC to skip and complete certain areas with suicidal themes. In one ending (the Zending), Stanley commits suicide repeatedly by jumping off of a platform before finally succeeding.

  • Is avoidable

Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Bone Crushing

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  Multiple endings involve Stanley jumping from a large height or getting crushed, where a sound effect of bones breaking is used.

  • Can't be avoided

Drugs & Alcohol

• Misc. Drugs & Alcohol Content

  Mentions of drug use; addiction

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  Drug use is mentioned sparingly (in the 'bucket adventure line'/bucket destroyer ending), but they are never seen or used. In at least one of the endings, Stanley is seen to be addicted to "the bucket" - so much so that there is an intervention held for Stanley in the Bucket Confusion/Adventure Line Ending. This is played non-seriously.

  • Can't be avoided

Gore

• Animal Violence

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  There is a cardboard cutout of a puppy that can get eaten by piranhas in a particularly obscure ending.

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• Blood

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  Not from a human or animal, but from a bucket

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• Body Horror

  Cardboard cut-out of a baby

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  A cardboard cutout of a baby is lit on fire.

  • Can't be avoided

Hate & Discrimination

• Ableism

  Madness

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  The Mariella ending involves Stanley going "insane" and dying. Upon discovering his corpse, Mariella's first thought is to be grateful that she's more "normal" than he is. This ending can be avoided by either stopping after achieving a different ending or through the game's content warning system.

  • Is avoidable

• Appearance Discrimination

  Fatphobia

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  The Narrator gets mad and insults Stanley by calling him fat at one point.

  • Can't be avoided

Horror Themes

• Jump Scares

  Loud horn

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  No visual ones, but a loud horn suddenly plays with no warning at the very end of the Confusion Ending.

  • Is avoidable

Mental Health

• Grief

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Mental Health

  Existential angst / distress & existentialism, unreality, breaking the forth wall

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  You can hold 'F' on PC to skip and complete certain areas dealing with mental health.

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• Panic Attack

  & derealization

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  One of the endings involves Stanley having a severe panic attack due to derealization, which results in him dying from an unspecified cause. The Narrator appears to have a brief anxiety attack when the Player receives the test achievement (after the Epilogue.) He has to audibly try and calm himself down.

  • Can't be avoided

• Suicidal Ideation

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  You can hold 'F' on PC to skip and complete certain areas with suicidal themes.

  • Is avoidable

Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Bullying

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  The Narrator can come across as harassing, bullying, and emotionally abusing Stanley.

  • Can't be avoided

• Emotional Abuse

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  The Narrator can come across as harassing, bullying, and emotionally abusing Stanley.

  • Can't be avoided

• Gaslighting

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  In the Apartment Ending, the Narrator does try to convince Stanley that the game's events are all daydreams.

  • Is avoidable

• Harassment

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  The Narrator can come across as harassing, bullying, and emotionally abusing Stanley.

  • Can't be avoided

• Manipulation

  • Can't be avoided

• Stalking

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  Stanley and his coworkers are being constantly secretly monitored by their employers via cameras. You can see someone watching Stanley in the background of the No Buckets and Bucket Elevator endings. There is also a rare instance where the Narrator claims that Stanley is being followed upon leaving his office at the beginning of a new run.

  • Can't be avoided

Phobias

• Acrophobia

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  The Zending involves falling off stairs, but not down them.

  • Is avoidable

• Agliophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Agoraphobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Automatonophobia

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  In the Apartment Ending, Stanley's wife is portrayed as a mannequin.

  • Is avoidable

• Claustrophobia

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  There are short segments where Stanley must crawl through vents.

  • Can't be avoided

• Emetophobia

  Gagging (but no emesis)

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  The Narrator gags briefly in a few points

  • Can't be avoided

• Hemophobia

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  Not from a human or animal, but from a bucket

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Phobias

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  Clowns -- There is an obscure easter egg where a clown mask from the game Payday can be found on the ground during the Confusion ending, though this can be easily missed.

  • Is avoidable

• Necrophobia

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  Stanley is violently crushed to death in the Museum ending. This isn't shown on screen, only being described and later heard.

  • Is avoidable

• Traumatophobia

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  You can hold 'F' on PC to skip and complete certain areas with trauma.

  • Is avoidable

Physical Health & Body Issues

• Pain & Physical Suffering

  • Can't be avoided

Sex & Erotica (Consensual)

• Sex Work

  Negative 'joke'

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  Sex workers are mentioned in the 'bucket adventure line'/bucket destroyer ending. The Narrator 'jokes' that Stanley is "addicted to drugs and hookers."

  • Is avoidable

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