“Stray,” a new videogame for Sony’s SONY, +3.42% PlayStation and Microsoft MSFT, +2.08% Windows, lets players explore a subterranean, cyberpunk city as ginger tabby that’s trying to claw its way back to its family.
The $29.99 third-person platform adventure and puzzle game — from French development studio BlueTwelve, and published by Annapurna Interactive — has drawn plenty of hype since it was first teased during the 2020 PS5 reveal event. (A newer trailer released on June 2 has already been viewed more than 1.7 million times on PlayStation’s YouTube account.)
And now the long awaited “cat game” is here — and players and their feline friends are already obsessed.
Some mild spoilers follow: The gist of the game is that you play a lost, stray cat navigating a subterranean city populated by robots. The goal is to get back to the surface world, where your feline friends live. Your stray soon teams up with a sentient drone named B12 (who can talk to the humanoid robots for your cat character), and the two of you explore the city and solve puzzles to find your way home, discovering what happened to all of the humans along the way — while also avoiding hungry monsters who want to eat this cute kitty up almost as much as the players do.
“Stray” was trending on Twitter on both Monday and Tuesday, around the game’s launch, drawing more than 363,000 tweets by late Tuesday afternoon. And perhaps the most adorable early trend featured gamers posting videos of their own cats being transfixed by the nameless, pawed protagonist.
‘Stray’ — the videogame where you play as a cat — is breaking the internet – MarketWatch
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