The Aloner: Stanley is the only person left in the office building.However, he cannot wake up, so he goes insane and dies. Stanley thinks he is dreaming, and is even capable to achieving effects of lucid dreaming. All Just a Dream: Subverted in the Insane ending.The game in general makes liberal use of portals to connect parts of the map together.The Confusion ending in the HD Remix features a few, including halls that allow you to turn more corners than should be possible without crossing your original path, areas where doubling back reveals that the entrance has gone away, and one case of a passageway that is clearly much longer the first time walking through than it appears to be from the outside.Are you as confined as Stanley? Is everything determined, or do you make up your own story? Adult Fear: Warning: you will question your own life while playing this game, and it's definitely one of the game's intentions to make you do so.Sound familiar? It's a send-up of video games in general, but particularly is reminiscent of quick-time events. Action Commands: Stanley's day job is pushing whatever buttons on the keyboard his computer tells him to, and he loves it.In the demo, there's an achievement called "Video Games!!" given for "winning" the demo (read: doing a trivial task the narrator made up on the spot).If you try to do exactly what the achievement says, the Narrator will express his disbelief about you being awarded an achievement for something so simple, and thus he'll send you all over the place doing all sorts of odd tasks in order to have you "work" for your achievement. There's also "Click On Door 430 Five Times", which is meant to parody meaningless achievements.There's an achievement for attempting to jump, titled "You Can't Jump".Stanley can also invoke this by diverting the story's course, getting into all sorts of silliness as the Narrator tries to get the story back on track. Aborted Arc: The Narrator's story in-universe begins with all of Stanley's co-workers mysteriously disappearing, only to drop this plot thread completely when Stanley stumbles across his boss's secret mind control facility.20% More Awesome: In the Raphael trailer, in response to Raphael's comment that he is both a logical and emotional being, the Narrator purports to have added sliders in the settings menu for Logic and Emotion and encourages players to set both to maximum to experience Raphael Mode.The reader then continued to scroll down, reading the following tropes. Doesn't really matter though, in the end. You have a choice in the matter, of course. It is prudent that you play the game before you read this page, as there are unmarked spoilers in this article. In December 2018, it was announced that the game would be receiving another Updated Re-release entitled The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, featuring more choices and endings this version will be available on consoles as well as PC, and will be released in 2021, " sometime probably before summer, but it sort of depends on the specifics of how game development goes ".