Probably the most self-aware media I've ever consumed, hell self-awareness is straight up a motif here, Stanley has no choice, except for a couple of endings the rest is all predetermined and sometimes where you restart the narrator just tells you to go ahead and skips the formalities reinforcing the theme of self-awareness.
If you listen to the narrator and do as he says you get the "freedom" ending which is ironically named because you get the ending by making no choices of your own accord.
If you listen to nothing the narrator tells you, you could get a bunch of different endings, pretty much none of which end up with you as a free person.
Here's a warning because I will be getting into spoilers!
The coworkers disappeared because the narrator made them vanish.
The story line with the mind control facility isn't real as the narrator says in one of the endings that if Stanley had picked the left door he would have uncovered a whole conspiracy and had seen yellow adventure lines and all of that so the only endings that are truly your choice are the one where you unplug the green phone and the one where you go to the memory zone and see the reviews for The Stanley Parable 2013.
If you listen to the narrator and do as he says you get the "freedom" ending which is ironically named because you get the ending by making no choices of your own accord.
If you listen to nothing the narrator tells you, you could get a bunch of different endings, pretty much none of which end up with you as a free person.
Here's a warning because I will be getting into spoilers!
The coworkers disappeared because the narrator made them vanish.
The story line with the mind control facility isn't real as the narrator says in one of the endings that if Stanley had picked the left door he would have uncovered a whole conspiracy and had seen yellow adventure lines and all of that so the only endings that are truly your choice are the one where you unplug the green phone and the one where you go to the memory zone and see the reviews for The Stanley Parable 2013.
