But saving the world? Unless there’s food involved, where’s the motivation?

Why the hell am I doing all this?” Knocking paint cans over is absolutely authentic cat behavior, as is clawing the hell out of anything within a six-mile radius - activities that Stray encourages you to participate in. Stray has a story to tell, and by giving you a front-row seat, robot backpack and all, it doles it out in dribs and drabs.īut I kept asking myself, “I’m a cat. You explore the ruins of mankind’s last city, observing and interacting with the robots that have taken on human roles out of sheer familiarity. From a player’s perspective this makes sense you get to roam the various levels of the city, including the gorgeous midtown. However, the more time I spent with Stray, the more I found myself craving a cat-faithful, early ending.īecause despite being a game about a cat who’s trying to get back home, Stray spends most of its runtime with you in the service of other people.

Your feline protagonist embarks on a quest to save humanity, er, robomanity, which entails parkouring (pawkouring?) across the city, dodging discount headcrabs, and solving some impressively creative puzzles. If you’ve yet to tackle it, it casts you as a ginger moggy who loses its family and finds itself stranded in an underground city, populated entirely by robots. Sure, Stray is a fantastic game and I loved nearly every minute of it. And secondly, developer BlueTwelve Studio has an over-inflated view of just how much cats care about other people. Firstly, being a cat is absolutely awesome. The following article contains spoilers for Stray, including the ending.

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