Showing posts with label The Stanley Parable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Stanley Parable. Show all posts

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Top 10 games 2014

It's time once again for a look back at another year of gaming!

I went through a period early this year where maintaining the weekly review schedule felt like a chore instead of fun. But I got over it - especially when I picked up my fancy top-of-the-line laptop in September, when you may have noticed increased quality in my screenshots and some experimentation with video reviews (now that I have a PC that can handle running a game and capture software at the same time).

As always, this is a list of my favourite ten games I played this year, not a list of the best games that released this year. Well, actually, this year it's eleven, because I just couldn't bring myself to cut any of those games off the list. So here we go - top ten eleven games, in (I think) the order I played them.

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

The Stanley Parable

Post-Launch Review
The Stanley Parable
Developer: Galactic Cafe
Released: October 2013
Played: demo complete in 33 mins; game complete in 2h:18min

This isn't as "post launch" as usual, but I played the mod when that came out a couple of years ago and I've been excited to try the full version. So this review is a little early, comparatively.

About

Originally a free mod, the full version of The Stanley Parable follows Stanley, an office worker who realizes one day that all his coworkers have mysteriously vanished. Accompanied by a narrator, Stanley's investigation is a sidelong exploration of player choice and decision making in video games, in a very meta and surreal style.