Stray: Living a Cat's Life.

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I would like to introduce a game named Stray and I've found out about this game from hive gaming community where this game looked getting famous. I also got interested about this and I then thought of playing this and try to be a cat.
Oh yes, this games character is a cat which means, I need to live a cat's life.

Stray is a single player video game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive.

I played two chapters which are 1. Inside the wall, 2. Dead City.

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The main menu has only four buttons as Start Game, Settings, Credits and Quit.
I normally check the graphics setting and control setting before I start a new game but I didn't do that with this game cause I thought I won't have trouble with this one. I directly hit the start game button and there were three slots and I selected one for a new game.

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It was heavily raining outside when there were four cats in a shelter and I got control of one cat which will be my cat. At first, I started rotating the mouse to check the frame rate and it was dropping it seemed. I thought that the mouse sensibility could be a little high so I decreased the look sensitivity from the setting and then I tried walking around and I didn't like the frame drop so I went to the setting again and I decreased the effects quality, shadow quality, texture quality and mesh quality to normal from high. Now it seemed smoother but I was not satisfied still so I thought of playing a bit.

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I had the option to interact with the other cats and I did that. Then I walked to the edge and tried to enjoy the environment, the sound of the rain.

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The red moon looked fantastic.

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Then I joined the other cats for sleeping and the screen went black as the cats went to the dream land.

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A cinematic started.
It was morning and my cat was still sleeping while a butterfly came and sit on the ear of my cat.

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And my cat was awake.

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Other cats were awake and was feeling their laziness while my cat was observing the place.

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This chapter is named Inside The Wall.

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The cats started moving to somewhere, maybe they were looking for a way to get out the wall.

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There were some water on the way and for my command, my cat started drinking the water and it stopped drinking it for another one of my command.

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Then all the cats kept moving until they've found a dangerous path on the way. It was a parted pipes that they needed to pass by jumping.

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All the cats passed the way except my cat as my cat was at the last position.

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The poor cat was afraid of falling but it couldn't do otherwise because it had to keep up with the others.

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It jumped and slipped and fell down from the pipe.

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The concrete down was leaning over so the cat couldn't stand there and it slipped towards downwards.

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The poor cat was trying hard to save itself from falling.

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Other three cats were watching the cat and couldn't do anything. It was a heart broken moment.

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My cat couldn't keep up and fell down.

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My cat fell deep inside a manhole and my cat was unconscious at first.

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Then my cat woke up and I tried to move it forwards but it was sick from the fall and it was hungry and probably afraid in the dark although darkness is their place to rule.

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There was a gate which was opened suddenly and I needed to pass that door.

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The door led me to Dead City after finished Inside The Wall and its another chapter. Now I need to walk alone in the dead city where there are no one but huge sized rats.

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I was observing the place. As soon as I went near a CCTV camera, it turned to me and didn't move cause maybe it's a motion sensor camera.

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I got some hints on the way about where to go and I needed to follow them as I didn't have a location map in this game.

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After walking a bit, there was this big sign saying, "HELP" and it shows a direction which I followed.

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The hint led me to another hint that asked me to follow towards another direction.

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Then there was a big running fan which was blocking my way and I used a tin can to stop the fan.
Then I kept moving and at a point,

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I had to break through a glass to inside an apartment, and

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I've found some water maybe which the cat started drinking with my command.

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Then I kept moving and I needed to go downwards and I used this nice lift to take me downstairs.

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After moving a bit more, I've found a dying robot which was coming towards me and died right before me and the cat seemed sad about that.

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Then after walking a bit more, it was a dangerous place for the cat cause there were some creatures that looks like huge rats, huge robotic rats and they had lights inside them.

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They tried to attack me.

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And now I had to start running with an objective of saving the life of the cat.
I kept running and I kept running while the rats kept following me and sometimes some rats got the cat and started biting it while I had to shake them off.

And then I got rid of them after several tries. I had to try several times to get to the life saver window cause and I was succeeded at last after trying to stop running first and then I jumped and I was succeed.

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I got many more hints about where to go next and I had to think about many little thinks that could make my way to next.

And voila! Chapter complete.
The next chapter will be "The Flat".

SEE YOU.



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Damn man, you put a lot of effort into typing out this post. Glad you’re enjoying the game. Personally, whenever I start up a new game I almost always gotta adjust the music volume as sometimes a games music can ruin the experience but Stray got a nice OST so it was a chill vibe for a chill game.

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This game totally deserves the effort.
I didn't need to check or adjust the music volume as it seemed perfect. I really liked the sound of rain and storm at the very beginning.

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Seeing that everyone is playing it makes me want to try it, but for now I don't have much time to play it :( I don't want to see too much either so I don't get spoilers.

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Yeah, it’s a great game. Lots of fun, exceeded expectations in terms of playability and actually putting a good story together.

It was unexpected honestly, was expecting it to be a “oh boy I’m a cat look at me” type of game, but it actually has a storyline that’s very well done.

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@oldfool The same happened to me and I already started playing it as I couldn't resist myself.
I hope you'll get free times to play this soon.

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