Visual feast with extra cuteness! <3

Rating: 8.5/10

The story is about a cute orange Stray cat separated from its family in an accident. On the hope to reunite with them, it passes through a mysterious & shocking isolated city where the game takes place.

The game is beautiful, expect some lite actions, mystery and cuteness throughout. If you love Meowww while walking through a visually stunning world and solving simple puzzles, this game is definitely made for you too. Narration without voiceover.

I recommend to buy this on sale, it's a short yet fun 5-10 hours long game.

Just finished it and I am on the fence. So considering the rating is very high, I will rate it not recommended as it did disappoint me in a couple of areas.

The things I really enjoyed were the gorgeous graphics, the cute cat, some of the robots had fun reactions to the cat. I liked the sections where you could knock stuff over or scratch stuff to progress further. Story was ok.

But besides the aforementioned things, there were a bunch of annoying elements that meant I barely finish the game.

Mainly the zurk and sentinel sections, where you had to run. They were not tuned that well, I've played a fair bit of games on the controller, but here I had many instances where I died over and over until I hit just the right running path. And then there was a zurk section which combined running/puzzling with quite strong horror elements, which I really did not expect from the game. I really cannot emphasize enough how there was a proper horror game type of bit, and I could imagine for quite some people it could be a point where they would stop playing. For such a "cat walks around cool robot city" game, it gave me a lot anxiety. The zurk sections where you could herd them as a puzzle were fine, such an approach would have better fit the rest of it, but to be honest I would overall rather spent more time doing cat things as part of quests, knocking stuff over, scratching, meowing to distract robots, etc.

Besides that, getting actually lost in the city occurred a bit more frequently than I'd like to admit. Sometimes there would be physical signs pointing the way, but walking that way did not help to find the quest location. This is not a game that's easy to pick up again if you've not played for some time. The robot backpack really could have shown some directions at times, perhaps not a minimap if that is not the right vibe for the gameplay, but at least a pointer in the near vicinity would have been good.

The gameplay overall could have been better, it had difficulty deciding if it wanted to be a puzzle exploration game OR a more action stealth game. It really feels like the art is upping this game's rating by a lot.

Hopefully if there ever is another Stray game, it comes with more cat, more robots, less zurks and less sentinels.
Despite the negative review, I did finish it because there is nothing close to it out there.

I hope I have helped at least inform someone whether the game is right for them. Thank you for reading.

Excellent jeu, graphisme et histoire à en couper le souffle, design magnifique, la motion capture du chat est excellente ce qui rend le jeu incroyable pour s'y plonger dedans ! Je pense que je referais le jeu ! Le jeu à une durée de vie courte mais y'a des possibilités de l'allonger avec des petites quêtes que vous donnerons les gens sur votre chemin si vous voulez les faire car rien ne vous empêche de juste tracer votre route !