Stray

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 599 Ratings

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  1. BugsBunny999666
    Jul 31, 2022
    10
    I did cry in the end. Only 2 games made me cry Red Dead Redemion 2 and STRAY.
    In the rolling titles you can see the names of the cats that took a role in this game and 3 were RIP I did cry twice as hard. Awersome Story of a stay car, the best game I did play in a last years
  2. Shellepiep
    Jul 31, 2022
    10
    I bought this game because I’m a cat lover. Not knowing anything about the storyline, I went straight in knowing whatever it’d be… it be good. It’s even better! The entire world is so different than anything I’ve played before. I loved the idea of a cat being the hero in this story as well. Besides that, the color correction on this game is uncanny. I totally loved it. Too bad I finishedI bought this game because I’m a cat lover. Not knowing anything about the storyline, I went straight in knowing whatever it’d be… it be good. It’s even better! The entire world is so different than anything I’ve played before. I loved the idea of a cat being the hero in this story as well. Besides that, the color correction on this game is uncanny. I totally loved it. Too bad I finished it, could’ve easily played many more hours. Hopefully, they’ll do a part 2.… Expand
  3. thedarkhorse
    Jul 31, 2022
    10
    An amazing game where you play a cat. Story is incredible and touching. The atmosphere is beautiful, and the game had the right difficulty when it came to puzzle solving.
  4. kezzyhko
    Jul 30, 2022
    8
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  5. kamikazegrannie
    Jul 30, 2022
    7
    Stray was a good game, but not one that fully embraced its concept. A cat simulator this is not: while you might happen to be controlling a creature that looks like one, this is clearly a cat with human purpose and motivations. That's disappointing: I had hoped for more cleverness in the puzzle solving, and more unique mechanics because of the character. However it becomes very clear earlyStray was a good game, but not one that fully embraced its concept. A cat simulator this is not: while you might happen to be controlling a creature that looks like one, this is clearly a cat with human purpose and motivations. That's disappointing: I had hoped for more cleverness in the puzzle solving, and more unique mechanics because of the character. However it becomes very clear early on that this is just a puzzle/exploration game where you happen to have the ability to go where others can't reach easily. It's challenging to say more without spoilers, but it's a shame they didn't make the game more unique to the character. It was never going to be perfect—you are a human controlling a cat avatar after all—but this feels like it didn't even make an attempt.

    Still on the good side of things: the game plays well, is presented well, and is fun to play. The story it tells is good and engaging. The length is extremely appropriate for this type of game, and it never felt like a slog in any regard. I'd still recommend it, but certainly temper your expectations.    … Expand
  6. Calicompis
    Jul 30, 2022
    10
    This game is so much more than just a cute game about a cat - it's a masterpiece with stunning environments, wonderful sound scape and captivating story!
  7. LittleLol
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    Solid 10, this is a very very immerse game and that makes it so freaking amazing. I'm talking about the little things that they put in, just to make this a truly masterpiece
  8. CerberusDogs
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    Я обожаю кошек, поэтому это лучшая игра в которую я играл. Легкая ненавязчивая бродилка играя в которую можно отдохнуть душой. Очень зацепила концовка, я даже всплакнул. 1110
  9. Ameer_Alucard
    Jul 28, 2022
    10
    What an amazing adventure thus far, the story must go on! Would recommend to animal lovers 100%
  10. MunhozMCM
    Jul 28, 2022
    7
    My Score:

    (7) - Good.

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  11. BoomerZoomer
    Jul 28, 2022
    1
    The only gameplay this game has is you holding shift and spacebar and watching intentionally slow cutscenes
  12. wladymeer
    Jul 28, 2022
    9
    Game is beautiful in details, vibe is there, especially for Love Death Robots fans, but it lacks a bit of bravery to make it even more a cat-game. If you change the protagonist to any other creature that can climb around effortlessly (lets say Prince of Persia) you wouldn't miss anything, and that's a disappointment.

    Also, collecting all the memories and badges without any reward, not    Game is beautiful in details, vibe is there, especially for Love Death Robots fans, but it lacks a bit of bravery to make it even more a cat-game. If you change the protagonist to any other creature that can climb around effortlessly (lets say Prince of Persia) you wouldn't miss anything, and that's a disappointment.

    Also, collecting all the memories and badges without any reward, not giving any kind of multiple ending, not even finishing the game properly is a let-down that would bring game under 8 mark.

    But, I support the studio, support the idea and hopefully they will make a sequel or some DLC that could fix the things that are missing at this moment. Physics is honestly a let down in 2022 and the cat... well... it does look like a cat, but i did expect a bunch more of freedom what it will do except for scratching here and there and stuck a head in a bag.

    However, I did enjoy the game. Not as much as I would like to (as I am a cat owner), but still, I would gladly recommend it to the others. Nice experience ♥    … Expand
  13. Sodozor
    Jul 28, 2022
    10
    I hate walking simulators but this one has great design in terms of world, game, levels and of course the cat
  14. Yosepgamer
    Jul 28, 2022
    2
    Esta muy sobrevalorado aunque es un juego simple buenos gráficos mala jugabilidad.
  15. fr1m0900
    Jul 28, 2022
    8
    Цілком нормальний проект з погляду гра будови. Логічні завдання цікаві, не напружують. Приємний сюжет (у нинішніх реаліях це велика рідкість). Команда розробників постаралася добре. Сеттинг особисто мені не особливо до вподоби. Так як у мене є кіт і собака та їх поведінка викликала в грі деякий дисонанс)) Але сама гра цілком гідна оцінки в 8 балівЦілком нормальний проект з погляду гра будови. Логічні завдання цікаві, не напружують. Приємний сюжет (у нинішніх реаліях це велика рідкість). Команда розробників постаралася добре. Сеттинг особисто мені не особливо до вподоби. Так як у мене є кіт і собака та їх поведінка викликала в грі деякий дисонанс)) Але сама гра цілком гідна оцінки в 8 балів
  16. Dondondondon
    Jul 28, 2022
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i love it. the game is very casual because it's basically a cat walking simulator but it demands exploring every nook and cranny of every level. i loved figuring out the sidequests! they were completely optional. i felt accomplished when i found out all the notebook pages, 8 items needed to continue the game. finding the optional energy drinks was fun. Listening to the muisioc was a pleasure. The 8-bit style music and the weird synth music was so cool to hear. i got emotional a little bit when the cat felt sorry for b12, the tiny little robot. the only few very annoying parts was the chase scenes where the headcrab woul;d overpower my cat and kill it. and the lazer shooting sentinel droids that killed me so many times. i really hated those things. it was thte most frusting part. the part where you had to lure 2 sentinel droids into the little room, i died maybe 6-7 times. one shot of the lazer would kill of my cat. I think the orange cat is super cute too, it looks like puss in boots if he were real life. The game's lore is surprisingly deep. It only gives tidbits of what happened to all the humans and how did robots came to be, and those huge ugly eyeball things in the sewers. They were vcery creepy and were never explained in the game. The visuals are quite impressive. I sometimes found myself going into first person view and looking around a little bit to read something or take a closer look. Some rooms had a lot of little details that were so interesting because it says a lot about the person (robot) living there. By thte end of the game, i was super interested what happens next and I hope there's a sequel! Did B12 survive? did the robot friends make it? What happened to the robots after the roof opened up? so many questions open for interpretation.… Expand
  17. doctolog
    Jul 28, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Я думаю це одна з найкращих ігор про кота. Сюжет дуже смисловий і дає задуматися над тим чи буде таке насправді. В кінці гри був натяк на продовження (або 2 частину або DLC)
    я все ж таки хочу побачити DLC, бо я не знаю що можна робити у 2 частині.
    Мені гра дуже сподобалася. 9/10.    … Expand
  18. Kuzya_Zeleniy
    Jul 28, 2022
    8
    Meow meow ≧◉ᴥ◉≦. A good game about a cat. The cat's behavior is so realistic that real cats react to its meow.
    When I found out that Stray weighs 10 GB, I had doubts about the game. But the game looks great.
    Gameplay is not modern, but very interesting. Therefore, this game will definitely not be boring. The plot is also interesting in its own way. During the game there will be moments    Meow meow ≧◉ᴥ◉≦. A good game about a cat. The cat's behavior is so realistic that real cats react to its meow.
    When I found out that Stray weighs 10 GB, I had doubts about the game. But the game looks great.
    Gameplay is not modern, but very interesting. Therefore, this game will definitely not be boring.
    The plot is also interesting in its own way. During the game there will be moments when you want to laugh, sometimes cry. And it is very good that the game can evoke emotions in the player.
    The visuals are done to perfection, the world of robots is done very well.
    The game is short (I personally beat it in 5 hours), but it's enough to enjoy the game, so if the game was longer, the cute kitty wouldn't be enough to keep the player interested in playing it.
    And I really hope that Stray will the best game of the year. Or at least the best quest of the year.    … Expand
  19. TitaniumDragon
    Jul 28, 2022
    1
    I was very interested in Stray when it was first announced publicly. The idea of playing as a cat was very interesting, and I tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible about the game before playing it. Unfortuately, I think that was a very bad mistake; this game is honestly quite mediocre and honestly, boring.

    The problem is that the most basic idea – the idea of being a stray cat    I was very interested in Stray when it was first announced publicly. The idea of playing as a cat was very interesting, and I tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible about the game before playing it. Unfortuately, I think that was a very bad mistake; this game is honestly quite mediocre and honestly, boring.

    The problem is that the most basic idea – the idea of being a stray cat walking through a futuristic city – sounds really neat, but when you actually reflect on the question of “Sure, but what’s the actual GAME like?” you start to realize that, for all that that sounds like a really cool premise for a game, it doesn’t actually seem to suggest much in the way of meaningful gameplay.

    What do you do in this game?

    Not much of interest, honestly.

    The “platforming”, such as it is, is extremely simple; you can only jump up and down a certain amount, and only to platforms – the cat does not jump independent of going to and from places, so the whole game is actually pretty rigidly controlled rather than open. You can’t climb, you can’t fight (except for a brief, very simple minigame you actually get an achievement for skipping, and which consists of nothing more than shining a flashlight on enemies vulnerable to light in one chapter), and you can’t really do anything sophisticated because, let’s face it, you are a cat.

    The result, then, is a game with very limited “gameplay” – some fetchquests, some pre-designed moving around in the environment, and like 1.5 chapters of mandatory stealth section which is quite basic.

    That’s it.

    Now, you might think that this is primarily a walking simulator… but honestly, it is bad at the story as well, and the game itself is surprisingly ugly.

    The problem is that the city is in ruins and the only people you can communicate with are robots, which means that there is no dialogue where you move around and they are talking with you, you have to stop to talk every single time, as you have to read it. There is no voice acting, and the characters are all very flat and uninteresting – none of them have more than one or two personality traits, and so it is hard to really care when good things or bad things happen to them. The dialogue is limited, and most of the robots just say repetitive things.

    It doesn't even deliver on the futuristic bit - the city itself is very mundane in many respects, and doesn't feel very futuristic at all. There’s no real spark of imagination here – it’s like they came up with the basic idea then executed it in the most boring way possible.

    This does not feel like a world that you are living in, but is very video-gamey, and the core plot – getting back outside of the city – is very, very basic and is nothing interesting.

    The city itself has a very boring backstory – we only get a tiny amount of it, we don’t get an explanation of what happened to the world, what we do see of it makes little to no sense, and there’s just nothing to really latch onto.

    The world, too, is quite ugly, because it is all set in a dark city, and while the idea of being lit up by, say, futuristic neon lights and holograms seems cool, it actually mostly is just boring slum-ish and boring concrete and fence areas – nothing particularly interesting. They even stick in plants, with the explanation that somehow humans genetically engineered them so they didn’t need sunlight anymore.

    But overall, this game is just bland. It’s not very long, which is a good thig because there isn’t much “game” there, but it isn’t very good, either.

    This is very much an experience you can skip. I thought the idea of playing as a cat would be cool, too, but there’s just no substance here – the world is too boring to carry the bad gameplay, and the gameplay is too bad to carry the story.    … Expand
  20. HiSinmax
    Jul 28, 2022
    7
    SOMA для кошатников. Почти.
    Что касается изобразительной части и музыки - хорошо; что касается всего остального - плохо.
    - Наивный сюжет завязанный на амнезии совершенно не держит интригу или напряжение. - Безликие персонажи, которых не вспомнишь на следующий день. - Фальшивый платформинг. - Геймплейные элементы примитивны и не предлагают никакого вызова. - Бестолковый фансервис. -    SOMA для кошатников. Почти.
    Что касается изобразительной части и музыки - хорошо; что касается всего остального - плохо.
    - Наивный сюжет завязанный на амнезии совершенно не держит интригу или напряжение.
    - Безликие персонажи, которых не вспомнишь на следующий день.
    - Фальшивый платформинг.
    - Геймплейные элементы примитивны и не предлагают никакого вызова.
    - Бестолковый фансервис.
    - Малая продолжительность.
    - Нулевая вариативность.

    Stray - это хорошая серия "Love, Death & Robots" из которой зачем-то сделали посредственную игру. Думал поставить 6, но накинул балл чисто за любовь к котейкам. Да, кошек я люблю, если что.    … Expand
  21. oVokick
    Jul 27, 2022
    10
    A very good game, but at the same time quite sad. I had a lot of fun playing it. Went through it in a day.
  22. ophibious
    Jul 27, 2022
    10
    Stray has been an amazing game; the story is deep and can create an emotional connection to players. The connection and emotion between each character feel deep. The robots interacting and trying to mimic their ancestors (humans) are so to the point—fear, joy, and meow. There was the suspense of keeping the cat out of harm no matter what; it was almost like I could feel this felineStray has been an amazing game; the story is deep and can create an emotional connection to players. The connection and emotion between each character feel deep. The robots interacting and trying to mimic their ancestors (humans) are so to the point—fear, joy, and meow. There was the suspense of keeping the cat out of harm no matter what; it was almost like I could feel this feline creature's skin when it was getting hurt. Music can't be much better than this; amazing sound design!… Expand
  23. BulgarianCritic
    Jul 27, 2022
    4
    This has been a pretty disappointing game due to the fact that the entire presentation and gameplay mechanics get boring really fast. After the first hour you get used to the boring and cheap mechanics such as jumping and meowing to open things. Sadly in such games it would have been a way better choice to remove the robot entirely since it's very cheap to tell this type of story via textThis has been a pretty disappointing game due to the fact that the entire presentation and gameplay mechanics get boring really fast. After the first hour you get used to the boring and cheap mechanics such as jumping and meowing to open things. Sadly in such games it would have been a way better choice to remove the robot entirely since it's very cheap to tell this type of story via text and now the surrounding environment. Also you are a cat so why the hell are they making you into some sort of SAVE THE WORLD protagonist which fits really badly into the story. It's a meh game.… Expand
  24. verdammte
    Jul 27, 2022
    9
    **No spoilers**

    This game is quite short (4-8 hours), but it's very good. I hope they release DLC for it. I will same that quite a few puzzles aren't exactly user friendly. I had to look a few things up, but overall it's very well designed. I cried at the ending, but I won't say more and risk spoiling anything. I'm happy with it. I'd give it a 10 if it were longer, but a 9 is good    **No spoilers**

    This game is quite short (4-8 hours), but it's very good. I hope they release DLC for it. I will same that quite a few puzzles aren't exactly user friendly. I had to look a few things up, but overall it's very well designed. I cried at the ending, but I won't say more and risk spoiling anything. I'm happy with it. I'd give it a 10 if it were longer, but a 9 is good considering it's not a full price game.

    The game is Steam Deck compatible. 80% resolution scale, all settings on high, v-sync enabled (resolution cannot be set on deck. it''s fixed)    … Expand
  25. Trueblue02
    Jul 27, 2022
    8
    Short lived relatively easy-going cat fun that I needed more of. Desperately needs a photo mode.
  26. terill
    Jul 27, 2022
    10
    Одна из самых прекрасных игр, что я видел, если не самая прекрасная. Огромный респект разработчикам!
  27. withinmyself
    Jul 27, 2022
    10
    The best part about Stray is the attention to detail regarding the main character. You play as a cat. Not a super-powered cat or an anime cat or an alien cat or genetically enhanced cat. No, you play as a normal cat. You eventually team up with an AI drone that rides in a little adorable harness but you, the cat, never change. You hit a button to meow. You can rub up against legs,The best part about Stray is the attention to detail regarding the main character. You play as a cat. Not a super-powered cat or an anime cat or an alien cat or genetically enhanced cat. No, you play as a normal cat. You eventually team up with an AI drone that rides in a little adorable harness but you, the cat, never change. You hit a button to meow. You can rub up against legs, take naps, get your head stuck in a paper bag. All the things that make cats great. And all the animations look amazing. The amazing story unfolds around this everyday very normal cat and the resulting dynamics of this experience are really phenomenal. I would even go as far to say this could easily become a completely new genre. Meow.… Expand
  28. t0nin0t
    Jul 27, 2022
    3
    One of the most overhyped games ever. The game basically gives you nothing and it's more a robot game where you play as a cat than being a cat game. Graphics aren't even that great, gameplay is very boring, and story is just bad. What I liked was level design, but I could've been improved by giving us free jump. Also the jumping button doesn't seem to work everytime and it doesn't evenOne of the most overhyped games ever. The game basically gives you nothing and it's more a robot game where you play as a cat than being a cat game. Graphics aren't even that great, gameplay is very boring, and story is just bad. What I liked was level design, but I could've been improved by giving us free jump. Also the jumping button doesn't seem to work everytime and it doesn't even show up, thus making you go to wrong directions cuz you didn't know you could go there.

    I can't justify any more than 3/10 fur this.    … Expand
  29. gtb
    Jul 27, 2022
    9
    Could have been longer, but it's still game of the year so far. Absolutely amazing.
  30. Acypa
    Jul 26, 2022
    10
    Best game for a long time. Beautiful graphics, interesting plot and incredible main character :3
    Passed in one breath.
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#55 Best PC Game of 2022
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Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 43
  3. Negative: 1 out of 43
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 25, 2024
    80
    The faithfully rendered, authentically impoverished setting goes a bit against the more magical technologies that accompany the cat's adventures. Suddenly, the game is left with nothing more than the atmosphere of each area, which fortunately in Stray's case still means a hell of a lot. [Issue#321]
  2. Cubed3
    Jun 2, 2023
    70
    Stray is an awesome looking game, with a neon-cyberpunk world that feels like it is alive. The run-time is short enough that the gameplay loop of solving puzzles via finding random items scattered throughout the world is well complemented from sequences that require running from area to area without getting caught by local mutated predators. While Stray is pretty to look at and is fun while it lasts the limitations of movement and rather simplistic puzzles hold this back from being greater than it could have been.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 19, 2022
    76
    Leisurely promenades and simple puzzles are interspersed with action moments where you have to flee from local aggressive fauna. There’s also some stealth involved. These segments aren’t stellar, but they do shake things up nicely. [Issue#260, p.58]
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