Narrator of Aperture

You play Portal 2. Normally. The voice in the facility is just not GLaDOS any more.

It is The Stanley Parable's Narrator, in Kevan Brighting's own recorded voice, read straight out of your own installed copy of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. He calls you Stanley. He tells you what to do. And he notices, every single time, whether you did it.

What he does

• Gives you orders you are free to refuse. Go left. Stay exactly where you are. Press the button. Do not fire a portal. Jump. Eight of them, and he only asks for what the chamber you are standing in can actually give him.
• Keeps score. An obedience rating out of 31 that moves with every order and follows you across level transitions and your save file, all the way through the campaign.
• Changes his mind about you. Four moods, from genuinely proud to bitter to quietly giving up, each with its own music.
• Reacts on his own. He takes in every chamber as you arrive, he has something to say each time you die, and he gets impatient when you stand around doing nothing.
• Brings his building with him. Stanley Parable office ambience and music under Portal 2's test chambers.

It hooks the campaign from the very first chamber, with his own opening narration, and follows you through the rest of it. Single player.

What you need

Portal 2, and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe installed on the same PC. Nothing of his is bundled here: the mod finds your Stanley Parable install itself and spends about fifteen seconds reading his voice, his subtitles and his music out of it the first time you press Play. If you do not own it, the mod loads and tells you so in Portal 2 rather than faking it with a soundalike.

Everything installs into portal2_dlc3, a folder Portal 2 mounts on top of its own content, so no game file is touched and deleting that folder removes the mod completely.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is by Crows Crows Crows and Galactic Cafe; the Narrator is written by Davey Wreden and performed by Kevan Brighting. Portal 2 is by Valve. Audio decoding by vgmstream.