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Stray review: A game that lets you live your best cat life

By cleverly capturing the behaviour of our feline friends, Stray offers a great experience for those who fancy spending time as a cat, says Jacob Aron

By Jacob Aron

17 August 2022

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One of Dead City’s humanoid robots – from the perspective of a cat

BlueTwelve Studio

Stray

BlueTwelve Studio

PC, PlayStation 4 and 5

MY VIDEO game-playing career is littered with incarnations of the post-apocalypse, a setting that is such a cliché that I have probably explored the ruined wastelands of most US states in various guises. But I have never done it as a cat.

On the face of it, Stray‘s premise – you are a cat trying to escape from an underground city populated by robots – sounds like a meme-worthy gimmick, but developer BlueTwelve Studio has…

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