The Confusion ending implies that he's not really in control at all and is just as controlled and trapped as Stanley.
Jerkass Woobie: The Narrator, depending on which ending you get.
An adventure game with online elements showing you how other players have played the game and what choices they made sounds ridiculous, but about a year later Telltale Games starting doing that with some of its episodic adventure games, like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us.
A game about keeping a baby from killing themselves? Surely that could never be made for real.