The Stanley Parable's "Go Outside" achievement, which tasked players to not play the game for five years, can finally be earned through legitimate means today.

"I have the news you've all been waiting for," The Stanley Parable writer and designer Davey Wredent tweeted this morning. "Today is the first day that it is possible to legitimately get the Go Outside achievement in The Stanley Parable."As seen in Wreden's tweet, the achievement in question requires gamers to take a five-year break from playing The Stanley Parable. For most games, it's unlikely that players would stop playing on the day of release unless they hated the game. But since most players complete The Stanely Parable in a few hours or less, it's entirely plausible that many players will be able to unlock the achievement today.Responses to Wreden's tweet include another game developer jokingly asking if it was bad to encourage someone to not play the game until he can unlock the achievement tomorrow. Some other players, meanwhile, are less sure of the last time they played The Stanley Parable and have said they'll wait another couple months just to be sure. At least one player also joked about appreciating "the assumption that I have actually gone outside" during the five-year interim. IGN awarded The Stanley Parable an 8.8 for being something "that’s intriguingly opaque, but always entertaining, and genuinely funny." Following The Stanley Parable surpassing a million sales , Wreden released his next game , The Beginner's Guide.

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