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Stray

BlueTwelve Studio · Annapurna Interactive

Quick read

Stray is a third-person adventure: you play a cat in a cyberpunk slum, jumping ledges, scanning trash, and following the robots. The camera is a spine and a pair of ears, and the city is a path someone lit.

What kind of game is it?

Authored adventure in third person. You jump ledges, scan trash, and follow droids through a walled city. The cat is the camera, and the evening is a district you finish.

Who is it for?

For players who like being a cat in a walled city: jump, scan, follow the robots.

How it plays

Loop: Exploring a map
Sessions: Medium sessions
Progression: Campaign
Players: Single-player
Structure: Linear
Tone: Cozy · Accessible

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
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Story58
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Social18
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2022-07-19

Review score

97.2%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

176,815

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€28.49

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Players

Single-player

How many people play Stray?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

4.4M – 9.7M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

51,455

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

530

Peak that month: 1,445.

Median playtime

8.6 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 6.2–12.2 h. 2% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English41%
Russian19%
Spanish (Spain)7%
Simplified Chinese7%
Portuguese (Brazil)7%
French4%

Stray players also play

Games played for more than an hour in 42 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).

Red Dead Redemption 245% · ×1.8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition43% · ×1.8
Detroit: Become Human26% · ×2.1
Mafia II: Definitive Edition14% · ×3.8
Peggle Deluxe10% · ×6.8
How to Fish21% · ×2.3
Cyberpunk 207736% · ×1.7
A Way Out17% · ×2.9
Little Nightmares II12% · ×4.5
Resident Evil 424% · ×2.1

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

A cat in a walled cyberpunk city, where the camera is a spine and the district is the evening you finish.

Core mechanics

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Genre / subgenre

Adventure

Steam genre: adventure.

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Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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