Stray [Video Game Review]

When Blue Twelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive revealed Stray at PlayStation’s Future of Gaming event in 2020, cat fans and adventure gamers drew an eager eye to the dark alley dystopian romp. Two years and plenty of gameplay teases later; Stray is out and ready for players to discover what it’s like to become a feline hero in a world where cat is king. (Stray is available now on PS4, PS5 and PC.) On the surface, Stray is a futuristic adventure game in a dark and grimy world, with some platforming and (zapping?!) mixed in. What lies underneath tells a much more sombre story of a city of robot denizens content in their place in their closed-off city, safe from the outside world that destroyed their human creators. Our cat protagonist is from this feared world and happens to stumble into ...

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