Stray

Like many others I fell in love with the trailer of this game. You play as a cat in a postapocalyptic world. What is there not to love?

This game pisses me off from the start, by not really showing cat-like behaviour. I know it is a game, but it irritates me that you can walk in puddles of water, no cat would do that. What cat would really go out while it is raining? and especially carry things around in their mouth? The only time my cats carry items in their mouth is when they have caught a prey.

So the game pisses me off. You would never get a cat to carry around a robot on its back. My cats would go “nah, fuck that” and make any attempt to get it off.

The environments are really nice, but I do not enjoy the robot inhabitants.

If we ignore the cat facts for a moment and focus on the game. You run around, looking for things and try to solve puzzles. The environments are quite nice and I like the verticality of the levels. I do not enjoy the inhabitants of the zones, I find them boring, and they all look the same apart from their clothing.

The puzzles are sometimes too easy, and other times weirdly hard. Like “go around and touch everything and you might find a clue”-hard. That is not fun, and I had to look up some solutions on youtube. They are also not very interesting.

The game is short and they do not try to extend it with repeated segments. I like this as it makes it less tedious to just power through. I didn’t really enjoy the gameplay or the puzzles but I managed to finish the game anyway.

I rate this game as OKAY.

Rating: 2 out of 5.

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