The proof that we love the cats with the same devotion as in the Ancient Egyptwhen they were worshiped as gods, is the growing popularity that the videogame strayover a stray kitten that must decipher a ancient mystery to escape some kind of cybercity abandoned and find the way home.
The title, which can be played in PlayStation 4 and 5 and in pcwas released on July 19 almost a year after its original release date, October 2021.
That means anyone who has a reasonably good pc or one playstation console of the last decade is playing this proposal developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive.
It quickly became an online phenomenon, delighting two of the most exciting communities online: gamers and cat lovers.
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What is it about stray
With a setting similar to that of the anthology program of dystopian animation Love, Death & Robots (Netflix), stray is a cat adventure game in third person set in alleys lit with neon lights of one cybercity declining.
the kitty of straya brindle mix with orange spots (orange Tabby), wanders around, fending off all sorts of unforeseen threats, and solving the mysteries of this unwelcoming place inhabited by curious robots and droids.
The idea of the game is see the world through the eyes of a cat and interact with the environment, having to be at times stealthy, agile, silly and sometimes even as annoying as possible (like a real cat) with the strange inhabitants of this mysterious world.
Along the way, the feline too befriends a small flying droneknown as B-12. With the help of this partner, the duo must find a way out of this city. cyberpunk Y return home to his family.
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How to play stray
The game can be downloaded for PlayStation 4 and 5and to PC, via Steam.
Photo: https://stray.game/
To play this game on PS5it is necessary to update the software to the most recent version, it explains on its website PlayStation: “Although this game is compatible with PS5, some features available on PS4 may be missing.” The version for this sony console has a cost of $29.99.
The title has the same value on the Steam platform, which digitally distributes video games for computers. To download it that way, you must first have created a Username on Steam and have Discharged the app of this platform, which recommends the download to users who meet these requirements: Windows 10 operating system, Intel Core i5-8400 processor | AMD Ryzen 5 2600; 8GB of RAM; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Graphics Card, 3GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4GB; DirectX Version 12; and storage of 10 GB of available space.
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Why the protagonist of the game is a cat
According to the producer Swann-Martin Ragetby BlueTwelve, the decision to make a cat the main character of the game was prompted by several reasons.
First, because of the nature of the game universe. The dystopian city of stray It is inspired by a settlement in Hong Kong which was demolished decades ago, the walled city of kowloon (which is somewhat reminiscent of the slum that appears in the tape Ready Player One). The founders of BlueTwelve realized it was the perfect backyard for cats.
But the biggest reason is that the BlueTwelve team is obsessed with cats. In fact, the studio’s office in the south of France has two full-time intern feline executives (who shut down computers before saving work). the protagonist of stray relies heavily on Murtaugha stray cat that the co-founders of BlueTwelve found and adopted several years ago.
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stray is the best rated game of 2022
Just two days after its release, stray was played for almost 50,000 people and the more than 21,000 users who purchased the game on Steam left “overwhelmingly positive” reviews.
It’s more, stray outperforms popular God of War as the best valued game by Steam players, reviews the AS newspaper, with information from Steam250a curated list of the best games on the platform, which ranks video games based on the number of positive and negative ratings, relative to the number of reviews they have.
As of Monday, July 25, Stray has a ratio of 8.61, out of 10, based on 42,665 votes, of which no less than 98% have been positive.
This has made stray have relegated to God of Waruntil now headed the list, to second place, with a ratio of 8.56 and 97% of positive votes.
Source: Eluniverso
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