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Stanley’s Profitable: Galactic Cafe Shifts 100K+ Parables

Not bad going for a game that that’s so very difficult to describe, eh? Galactic Cafe – aka Davey Wreden – have managed to flog over 100,000 copies of affectionate choice’n'consequence skit The Stanley Parable to date. Did he achieve this by following the rules and doing everything he was expected to, or did he choose another path, going his own way despite the nurturing wisdom of onlookers. I reckon the latter, given he put out a demo, which lots of money-hungry men in suits claim is commercial suicide despite repeated evidence to the contrary.

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