Stray

Started the game crying about a cat, ended the game sobbing about a robot. Immaculate.

Stray is a game where you play as a cat. Just… a regular little orange cat with a tiny backpack. You fall into a forgotten cyber city full of flickering neon, rusted alleyways, and robots trying their best to be human. Your overall goal is to get back to your feline friends. Along the way, you’ll nap in cozy corners, knock over bottles for no reason, meow at strangers, and occasionally run for your life from unsettling sci-fi bugs! Normal feline activities. The city itself steals the show. Every alley feels like it has a story. Every robot you meet is quirky, curious, or quietly lonely. There's no giant plot twist waiting at the end, but the world-building and atmosphere do the heavy lifting. And somehow, despite everything being rusted and broken, it feels oddly hopeful. Yes, it’s a short game, you can easily finish it in an afternoon or over a couple of evenings but that’s part of its charm. It doesn’t try to stretch itself thin or overstay its welcome. It’s the kind of story that settles in quietly, like a cat curling up beside you, and then stays in your thoughts for days, soft, subtle, and unexpectedly moving. Definitely give it a try! <3

I waited a while to review this game, but the truth is, it's one of the better games I've played in recent memory. The atmosphere, characters, and sense of freedom create a perfect vibe, something you can genuinely relax with, without having to stress or try too hard to complete. What really stood out to me was how immersive the world feels. The game doesn't push you in any one direction, it lets you explore at your own pace, which makes the experience feel personal. Whether you're just wandering around soaking in the scenery or engaging with the characters, there's always a sense of purpose. The characters stories unfold naturally, and you actually want to spend time getting to know them. It’s not just about ticking off quests, it’s about being part of a world that feels alive and meaningful. The soundtrack and ambient sounds deserve an applause as well. They perfectly complement the mood of the game, helping you get lost in it for hours without even realizing. Cant forget about "Morusque" either, listening to her guitar strum was always relaxing. Overall, this is the kind of game you return to when you want to unwind and escape. It just invites you in, and that’s what makes it so special.

Stray isn’t just a game it’s a feeling. I felt like I was really there, a lonely cat wandering through a forgotten cyberpunk city, surrounded by cold neon lights and quiet, broken robots. The atmosphere is incredible — melancholic, cozy, alive. The music hits deep, and the visuals feel like art you just want to sit with. More than once I caught myself just standing still, listening to the rain or staring out a window. This game leaves a mark soft, like silent paws on a rooftop. Highly recommended.

Stray is one of those rare games that surprises you with how deeply it resonates emotionally, all while letting you live out the fantasy of being an adorable, agile cat navigating a stunning cyberpunk city. The visuals are absolutely gorgeous—neon-lit alleys, rusting rooftops, and a hauntingly atmospheric underground world, all brought to life with beautiful lighting and environmental storytelling. The animation of the cat is incredibly lifelike, from the way it stretches and scratches, to the charming "meows" and playful interactions with objects in the world. Gameplay is a mix of exploration, light puzzles, and platforming, all perfectly paced. The game never overstays its welcome, and every chapter feels fresh and engaging. The bond between the stray cat and the drone companion, B-12, adds emotional depth and storytelling that’s surprisingly impactful. This isn't just a game for cat lovers (though it’s a must-play if you are one!)—it’s a thoughtfully designed adventure with heart, atmosphere, and originality. Highly recommend for anyone who wants something a little different, a little emotional, and very, very memorable. 🧡🐈

If you are a cat person, this is a must game for you. The story is amazing, cat noises are the cutest and the whole world is absolutely gorgeous. Especially the way they used the light in Slums. Will definitely play it more than once.

It pains me to give this game a negative review but I don't like being held hostage by the games save system(or lack thereof). I lose a lot progress if I have to quit abruptly. IF they implement manual saving I'd buy this game again. Looks really fun otherwise.

i really liked playing this game! the cat is sooo cute and i really liked the gameplay. some levels were rough and took me a while because i was playing on a keyboard. i later switched to a controller and it went a lot beter. i ejoyed exploring the slums, the antvillage and midtown. it was also fun to do cat things (meow, scratch and sleep). its so cute :)

Stray is alright, but nothing too special. I surely enjoyed the game, especially the environments are beautiful and full of detail. It's a blast to walk through the cities and nature and the controls are really good. The story is bare bones but enough to keep you entertained. Besides the previously mentioned points the game does not have much to offer though. It's a walking simulator on steroids, that takes (if you ask me) to long to finish. Overall the game is good and playing a cat is done really well and a original concept. But because the gameplay is otherwise so limited and the game starts to feel a bit repetitive after a while, I recommend it only on a sale.

A little short, but you get to do cute cat things and fight aliens... Oh and hug robots too ! A good moment, nice scenery and pretty immersive. A bit expensive considering its overall length.

Stray is fairly conventional from a gameplay perspective. However, playing as a cat in a post apocalyptic robot-centric world is novel. While the gameplay didn't blow me away, the world, characters, and story did. By the time the credits rolled, I was invested in the world and I was very satisfied with how things wrapped up. Overall, I enjoyed my time with Stray and I'll likely return in the future for DLC or another play-through.

This is easily one of the most remarkable games I’ve ever played. I was completely immersed in its atmosphere and story. I wholeheartedly recommend it — and I envy anyone who’s about to experience this journey for the first time

Stunning environment, great story, 11/10

love it, great game with great contet, gonna do a complesionist one of theese days

⇢ Content ⇠ □ Seriously Lacking □ Feels Like It Is Missing Something ⊠ Just Right - Kept Me Engaged □ SO Much You Can Do ⇢ Graphics ⇠ □ Awful □ Satisfactory ⊠ Beautiful □ Absolutely Stunning ⇢ Sound/Music ⇠ □ Had To Mute It To Play □ Didn’t Really Notice It Was There ⊠ Some Nice Songs □ Great Soundtrack ⇢ Story ⇠ □ There Was A Storyline? □ Not Easy To Follow The Story □ Pretty Standard ⊠ It was Engaging and Very Well Done ⇢ Bugs/Glitches ⇠ □ Unplayable □ Annoyingly Frequent □ Hardly Noticeable ⊠ None ⇢ Replayability ⇠ □ Won’t Touch This Game Again □ Only To Get Achievements □ Maybe After Time Passes ⊠ Would Love To Replay ⇢ Value ⇠ □ Not Worth It At All ⊠ Only On Sale □ Worth Listed Price □ Would Pay More Than Full Price ⇢ Overall Rating 9/10 ⇠

great story and world, i want more cat game like this pls

Stray isn’t just a game it’s a feeling. I felt like I was really there, a lonely cat wandering through a forgotten cyberpunk city, surrounded by cold neon lights and quiet, broken robots. The atmosphere is incredible — melancholic, cozy, alive. The music hits deep, and the visuals feel like art you just want to sit with. More than once I caught myself just standing still, listening to the rain or staring out a window. This game leaves a mark soft, like silent paws on a rooftop. Highly recommended.

Adored this game! it was challenging enough to be enjoyable but not frustrating and the story was amazing. Love the kitty adventure :)

This is by far the best game I've ever played. The visuals are amazing, same with the story. All the characters have their own unique personality, I'm sure almost everyone will find a robot that they love.

This game is a gem. I went into it 100% blind, I thought it was just going to be a cozy cat simulator and nothing else.... I was not prepared to experience one of the best atmospheres in any game ever. From the environment to the music, it is immersive through out its entire run. The game itself is actually very short, you can finish it in about 90 minutes if you only focus on the story, but there is so much to explore and play around with that I'm sure you'll spend more than just two hours playing this game. I'm not going to spoil anything, you deserve to experience it on your own. I will say, give the 100% run a chance, it is one of the more fun 100% games I've done.

nice game , fun , anyone who loves the feline folks will love the game

I decided to do all the achievements just because of how much I love this game. The characters, the story, the chuckles, and the heart strings being pulled. Some say it's too short and sure, if you just run through it without exploring (which is the whole point) it'll be over pretty quickly. Just an awesome game in every aspect and great for anyone of any skill level.

This is not a game for those who struggle with platformers. It's got a great story and a heartwarming protagonist, but is impossible for anyone who needs "story mode" in games. (I've been playing my partner through every chase.) There is no ability to adjust difficulty, and the checkpoints don't even happen every cutscene, so you have to replay them sometimes. And the checkpoints for the platformer parts are minutes or, if you're her, 20 minutes apart. It feels like this game only requires a few tweaks to make it a great story game, which is why it's caused so much frustration.

I loved the first 5 hours of the game and fell in love with the cat and the world. However, I hated the parts that involved escaping the zurks and left the game during the rooftop sequence. Maybe, I’ll come back to it again some day.

Stray is a beautiful and emotional game where you play as a cat in a futuristic world. The story, atmosphere, and visuals are amazing.It´s a very good game.

A short puzzle - exploration game for a couple of evenings. Cute characters, good visual style.

Stray is a game about a cat who gets separated from its family. That’s how it starts. That’s what it pretends it’s about. That’s what the trailer sold you, what the opening scene establishes, and what your emotional expectations are built around. [spoiler]Then, halfway through, the game forgets. It becomes a shallow robot melodrama, and the cat—the only character you ever cared about—becomes a mute delivery vehicle for a dying hard drive.[/spoiler] [spoiler]You will not reunite with the other cats. You will not resolve anything emotionally. You will help some robots open a door and then walk away alone. And the game will not treat this as a tragedy. It won’t treat it as anything. It will act like the opening never happened.[/spoiler] This is not an artistic choice. It’s narrative abandonment. The game is beautiful. The animations are perfect. The sound design is rich. Yes, there’s a meow button. Yes, you can knock over cups. None of that excuses the fact that Stray betrays its own setup. Every “Most Helpful” review says this game is brilliant because you can purr. That’s the bar. But when you remove the ambient lighting and the serotonin hit of playing as a cat, what’s left is a hollow, cliché-soaked cyberpunk script with no emotional resolution. Stray isn’t bad because it’s short. It’s bad because it promises to be about something real—and then stops being about it. I am not mad that it ended the way it did. I’m mad that [spoiler]it didn’t end the story it began.[/spoiler] It could’ve been great. Instead, it settled for cute. And everyone lapped it up. . . like a cat. . . does. . . to. . . something. I'm not good at analogies.

Where do I start... This game is absolutely beautiful, heart wrenching, heart warming and just truly incredible. I've enjoyed every minute of it. As a dear cat lover, I truly resonated with the feelings of the kitty throughout the game - through sadness or uplifting moments. I am honoured to have played this game in my lifetime.

So disappointing, a beautiful looking game and a unique idea. But why? I was forced out of the slums into the next area having handed the notebooks into Momo without having handed everything else in related to that area. So I rolled back to the slums chapter only to find that the electric cable, cans and music sheets I had in my inventory had been voided, deleted, black holed; I was expected to run the whole gig again. So I did run it again, skipped touching base with Momo and grabbed everything else. Handed in my music sheets, got my poncho and all of the notebooks bar Momo's. Headed up to talk to Momo and grab the final notebook, NO F$%KING DICE. The muppet won't give me the final notebook, I can not pick it up. After a quick Google I find it's a bug that hasn't been fixed. Why? WTF why? Do you think I'm running that shit a third time? Not a chance. Just bad game design. Goes to show, you can make things pretty as fek but miss the target. I guess when the monkeys are throwing "Overwhelmingly Positive" around the developer has zero need to fix the bugs.

I enjoyed this game so much!! Genuinely, one of the best puzzle-y/quest-y games of all time, I'd say. By the end of the game, I felt real compassion towards the character and even shed a tear or two. I believe everyone who enjoys games should play this masterpiece.

I literally LOVE THIS GAME So Much, totally recommended, I love the history, the graphics, the colors, the vibe, I never play as a cat and I think is a really creative and amazing idea, is a very emotional video game and I love everything about it, can't wait for part two.

Thought I was getting a silly little cat game puzzle game. Got way more than that at the end. I truly do not know the right words to describe the journey this game took me through. 10/10

Very good and emotional story. Very fun gameplay as well.

I liked the concept very much. I have never before played a game quite like this. You get to see the world through the eyes of a cat. Experience elevated by the beautiful graphics.

Really good, sad, and it looks great. only issue is once I fell out of the map, otherwise it was purrfect!

second time a game has made me cry like a baby........ i think everyone and their mothers should experience stray at least once in their life

one of the best platformers I've played, soundtrack is epic too

That was a fantastic journey. The whole game is a pure encapsulation of the cyberpunk genre. You can feel it`s essence in the games visuals and audio. Being a cat just amplifies the insignificance of the low life within high tech of the environment. Such an awesome experience.

I get entirely engrossed in the story. More than a little heartbreaking, but definitely has the charm of playing as a cute kitty baby. The graphics are amazing and it's nice that the speed run achievement isn't too bad if you use a guide. I did rebind the "meow" button because the LEFT ALT was difficult to use in chase/fight sequences.

This is one of my favorite games that I’ve played, with a great story line. I’ve never been so sad to finish a game.

I just finished stray and honestly this game is beautiful. It's emotional, unique and kept me interested the whole game, I do recommend this game. If anyone is experiencing bugs or glitches(especially chapter 4 The Slums 2) just lock your FPS to 60 from uncapped - that helped me a lot. And also, do not reset chapters because you will lose everything from your inventory.

Honestly the best game I have ever played, so many plot twists, funny moments and thrilling challenges. I really enjoyed playing it and I would recommend this game to anyone. 10/10

This game might seem like a walking simulator but with a cat instead of Sam Porter Bridges, but it is much more deeper than that. The gameplay is fun, well balanced. The puzzles are not super hard or super easy, fun to tackle, and different enough to be entertaining. The storyline is beautiful and deep, and the character are interesting to get to know, so is the universe. I recommend this game, would cat again.

Very nice and fun game, amazing for a quick finish and a good immersive and interesting storyline.

Thoroughly entertaining, nice puzzles. The replay chapter thing could've been better, but all in all, a nice, short game. Recommend.

Charming, i was hoping for a walking sim and the gauntlet style scenes were work than I'd personally wanted. I just wish there was a built in option to lower the intensity. I doubt this would bother most video game enthusiasts though.

I absolutely LOVE this game! I just bought it for the Steam summer sale, and I really wish I would've bought it sooner. It has the cute elements of the cat and getting to sleep, drink, get pets, etc. while also have the serious, dark side of the story line. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants a cozy, thriller game. Yes, there are small mobs to fight, but it's not super stressful. 10/10 game!!

WOULD I RECOMMEND THIS GAME? ABSOLUTELY. Such a sweet story line, kept me entertained the whole way through. I went through a roller coaster of emotions at the start and end of the game. It was cute, it was sweet, I loved how it's not a very long game but if you're anything like me, you will explore to your hearts content. (I also feel the need to get 100% completion on my games) I did miss one memory, I shall go back and get it so my heart can feel content. I also plan on speed running this game. It was too good to only play it once.

Absolute gem of a game. Visually appealing and beautiful sound design / music.