Half Life + Blade Runner + Cat = Stray

[Brian Boru]

Watch the couple of short videos about this 2022 game and see if you can avoid wishlisting it.

Stray on Steam

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

store.steampowered.com

It's from Annapurna Interactive—among others, What Remains of Edith Finch & The Outer Wilds—and totally captivated me.

You?

 

[Zloth]

I can't, it's for Playstation.... OH! That's a Steam video! Sneaky devs.

P.S. 5¢ says fixing your leg is the starting tutorial.

 

[ZedClampet]

Looks like a wonderfully interesting city to explore. Also, they must have a lot of patience, cause you know a cat had to be hooked up to mo-cap stuff and expected to do things. They must have had a little mo-cap suit made for the action star. As someone who's had cats (but not currently), that would be interesting to see. Every animal I've ever had has considered wearing anything as being a form of torture. But they did a great job with it. Those cat animations are amazing.

 

[ZedClampet]

I can't, it's for Playstation.... OH! That's a Steam video! Sneaky devs.

P.S. 5¢ says fixing your leg is the starting tutorial.

5 cents is too steep for me. I'd hate to have to skip town.

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

Saw the trailer and yup, I am interested - like the idea of being a cat doing more or less cat things. If they deliver with interesting world as well, we may have a little gem on our hands. Time will tell, for now Stray surely lands on my list of games potentially worth expecting.

Also, the first scenes with cat limping around made me sad. I wouldn't as much as blink seeing human getting mauled, but kitty with a limp? WHO IS THE BASTARD WHO DID THIS TO YOU, OH SWEET INNOCENCE, I SHALL AVENGE YOU.

 

[Zloth]

WHO IS THE BASTARD WHO DID THIS TO YOU, OH SWEET INNOCENCE, I SHALL AVENGE YOU.

It was that puppy over there, the one with the really big eyes.

 

[Yggdrasill]

Watch the couple of short videos about this 2022 game and see if you can avoid wishlisting it.

Nope, couldn't resist thanks for showing!

 

[Face Hugger]

That looks really fascinating. Since Unavowed was on sale today I now have a free space on my Steam wishlist

 

[MrShadow]

im glad you guys have mentioned stray, i play a lot of animal simulators and im always looking for decent cat sims,it comes up a lot in the algorithms not surprising.

i am just praying to the gaming gods that my entry level gaming laptop will run stray,otherwise ill have to pretend my place is stray IRL-ive got enough tom cats to act the part.
its more the processor that seems to be the problem with games,my 8 core ryzen 7 4000 series CPU runs at 2.60GHz, but a lot of minimum spec and recomended spec are for 3+GHz or wildly over that-more like overclocking teritory.

'away' is another promising looking simulation coming up,you play a sugar glider in that one.

 

[Sarafan]

Looks really promising and original, but I have some fears whether it was a good idea to make your main character a cat. I mean, we don't see such a thing quite often and that's an advantage, but it makes me wonder if the gameplay will be interesting enough. Anyway the developers have my attention.

 

[Brian Boru]

it makes me wonder if the gameplay will be interesting enough

Looked to me like it'll be mainly centered on environmental puzzles, which could be fun being able to jump 10 times your height, squeeze thru narrow spaces, etc.
Also looked like some action thrown, zapping the hordes of rodents chasing you—hope that doesn't end up like a zombie shooter.

Maybe a serious version of Untitled Goose Game meshed with survival action. Should they have called it Escape From Ratov?

 

[Brian Boru]

Release July 19, 2022.

Stray on Steam

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

store.steampowered.com

 

[ZedClampet]

Release July 19, 2022.

Stray on Steam

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

store.steampowered.com

Aw, I thought that meant it had launched

 

[WoodenSaucer]

Release July 19, 2022.

Stray on Steam

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

store.steampowered.com

That looks like a really fun game.

 

[Brian Boru]

Jake Baldino has a 9m video about it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZx8Y_x4IRw

 

[ZedClampet]

Originally, I was going to get this when it comes out, but, realistically, the chances of me playing it to the end are slim to none, so I should probably wait for a sale. Or you could do a let's play, and I could watch you play it.

 

[Ryzengang]

This game has been on my wishlist for quite some time, so I'm definitely intrigued. I'll wait for reviews of course, but even if it reviews well I'll likely wait for awhile to pick it up. I've got a bunch of backlog games I want to get through at the moment.

 

[Brian Boru]

you could do a let's play, and I could watch you play it

You'll probably have forgotten all about it by the time I get it

 

[Zloth]

https://www.pcgamer.com/steams-most-wishlisted-game-gets-knocked-over-by-a-cat/

 

[Brian Boru]

https://www.pcgamer.com/steams-most-wishlisted-game-gets-knocked-over-by-a-cat/

Huh, how about that! Then again…
"That doesn't necessarily mean that Stray has been wishlisted more than The Day Before, or any other game on the list—many of which actually have thousands more followers(opens in new tab) than Stray. The list is sorted by "relevance," and according to Simon Carless of the GameDiscoveryCo newsletter(opens in new tab), that means there's a touch of the ol' Steam algorithmic magic at work too."

We are so lucky to have algos to tell us what we should know, rather than merely plain ol' what is. That said, nice to see a probably bot-boosted wishlist topper toppled… <-- for extra credit, try saying that 5 times quickly.

 

[Brian Boru]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3Yf8kaQTk

 

[Zloth]

Just ten hours.... oh.... ummm.....

 

[WoodenSaucer]

Just ten hours.... oh.... ummm.....

Not bad if it's priced correctly. If it's a full $60, I'm not sure if it's worth it.

Edit: Just looked it up on Steam, and it's only $30 normal price. In my opinion, it's priced right.

 

[Brian Boru]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_rXO3wdUs

 

[Zloth]

Edit: Just looked it up on Steam, and it's only $30 normal price. In my opinion, it's priced right.

For a ten hour game? Bah. I'll wait for a sale. (Honestly, I would wait anyway for more bug fixes.)