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In Stray, you are a cat that saves the world from loneliness and squeaky little monsters, how can anyone not like that??
Naps, scratches, knocking stuff over, meows and purrs are quite an important part of this lovely videogame.
I remember watching the advert a couple of years ago and thinking, oh this must be cute! Then life gets busier and busier and you sort of forget… suddenly it came back to my mind that there was this “new” game I really liked, so went online, ordered it and BAM here we are glued to the chair playing until our eyes were shutting at night, after a busy day at work and parenting.
Stray starts with you being this cute ginger cat mingling with your cat friends, it looks like you are in between bushes and big pipes in a remote part of town and rain is pouring down. So obviously you and your furry friends all snuggle up together and take a nap.
When you wake up rain has stopped, and you all go on an adventure. You learn how to meow, how to jump (only when the game allows you), to scratch and just when life seems like a peaceful bliss you fall down and keep falling for quite a while until all is rotten and dark.
After this scare you get up and realise you’re limping, not great when the setting suddenly gets dark, echoey and every noise makes you uneasy, but luckily it doesn’t take you long to be back and trot around.
After leaving a place that looks like sewers you find yourself in a very dirty city, it looks quite poor and not well looked after. You have to look for the hidden arrows to help you get to the first place where you can find things that will help you.
We tag teamed through Stray, Roberta played the nice parts where she could just stroll through and solve puzzles, Scott would take control when the game got tense and there was a lot of running, zapping plump evil creatures and avoiding being shot involved.
Roberta just felt too bad if the cute cat died and it was her fault… wimp!!!
Getting to discover the city was just great, getting to find all the new places, exploring and finding things and finally meet the inhabitants… robots!!!
Robots will tell you who to finds and what needs to be done, it’s then up to you to pick up the clues and discover all the little fun tricks a cat can do. Eventually you’ll find a little drone that it will help you to communicate with the robots and will slowly unravel the mystery surrounding the city.
The city goes up in levels and the closer you get to the top, the cleaner and more advanced the robots are. The bottom level are the Slums, where you have to escape the Zurks: little, plump, flesh
eating, evil things. Once you find what you need to make contact with the outside world, you’ll move up to the city. In the city you will have to escape the sentinels guarding a factory and the prison, after that the top level is quite a smooth sailing.
Stray is short (roughly 6 hours), low pressure and very easily played, there are riddles that will require some brain squeezing but not so much to make you lose interest and some other useless but extremely cute details, like cat naps, scratching carpets and meowing.
We absolutely loved it and our little one loved watching “red cat on a bridge” (there was one bridge on the whole game and that’s all she remembers!).
