With the video games launch schedule beginning to ease up a bit, I’ve lastly discovered a while to actually dig into The Stanley Parable Extremely Deluxe. I’ve loved revisiting this meta first-person puzzler, however typically I can solely handle small chunks earlier than its endlessly repeating corridors begin to really feel like they’re bearing down on me a bit. Fortunately, its newest high quality of life replace may simply be the factor I would like. In addition to introducing a swathe of recent accessibility options, its auto-walk operate now has a toggle possibility – and as builders Crows Crows Crows have famous on Twitter, because of this “as long as you are in a straight hall it permits the sport to play itself!” Magic.
After all, the primary cause behind the brand new toggle characteristic is to assist support gamers who discover it troublesome to carry down buttons for prolonged intervals of time, somewhat than accommodate lazy bones like myself. Nonetheless, I am an enormous fan of auto-walk/run options generally, particularly while you’re traversing large, huge open maps while you’re on foot, or on the again of the horse in an RPG, say. Certain, you typically run the chance of operating straight right into a tree (or in Extremely Deluxe’s case, most likely a photocopier or fringe of a desk, oww) each every so often as a result of your thoughts is elsewhere, most likely centered on that weird-looking rock formation within the distance, however I do respect simply having the ability to drink within the surroundings a bit extra as an alternative of all the time having my digital camera skilled on the place I am heading.
Clearly, there aren’t as many ‘unbelievable landscapes’ to admire in The Stanley Parable Extremely Deluxe, however this replace has made me wanting to take one other run by its workplace corridors to see if it makes them extra digestible.
The auto-walk toggle is not the one new addition. The High quality Of Life replace additionally introduces the choice to completely allow a crosshair in the course of the display screen, full with measurement, opacity and cursor kind settings, and the choice to disable some movement parts associated to its #newcontent. A Low Dexterity Mode might be enabled as properly to provide gamers extra respiration room to finish time-sensitive button inputs.
These are simply the headlines, although. The total particulars might be discovered within the full patch notes, which additionally teases the following “even bigger patch”, which can embrace translations for Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese language and Ukrainian, plus a “few additional surprises and secrets and techniques”.
The Stanley Parable Extremely Deluxe is out now on Steam for £20/$22/$25.