Two years ago, Sony held a presentation showing games for the PlayStation 5.

But there were not only exclusives. And from unusual announcements was the game Stray, which tells about the adventures of some cats.

No sooner had the novelty come out yesterday than it broke the record for online publisher Annapurna Interactive, combining Outer Wilds and Twelve Minutes. Now the novelty retains its leadership in the Steam TOP chart.

And online, the game entered the TOP-20 platform. This is a very high result for an indie project.

We have already passed the novelty and are in a hurry to share our impressions. Does everyone deserve her praise? Spoiler: yes.

Adventures of a brave cat (no boots)

Stray’s adventure game about a cat in a cyberpunk city inhabited by robots attracted everyone’s attention at the Sony presentation. Still, not everyone has the opportunity to play for such a cute game of the protagonist.

The plot itself in a fairly simple game. The plot: a company of cats walks through the pipes, at one point our main character fights off his relatives and falls into a mysterious underground city inhabited by worn robots. Now he has to reveal the secret of people’s consciousness and find the way of awareness – home.

Presumably, people died out, leaving behind a legacy: technology, robots, and opened underground cities in case of a man-made disaster.

Barely getting out alive from the ruins and sewers, the protagonist finds an unmanned drone named B-12. He helps us on our adventures.

The plot is as simple as possible, but no less interesting. Yes, the idea is not enough stars from the sky, this is already a hackneyed topic, but simple and understandable to absolutely everyone.

According to the plot, robots were assistants to people, but as soon as the latter disappeared, they evolved and adopted the behavior of people. They now have their own way of life and language, and they are afraid of any “new” living organism: God will not wait for them the same fate that is necessary.

In fact, the whole game is built on the constant attendance of a cat with a relatively “open” world. discovery is an extended location, you have to wander around the objects and constantly study them. Locations are constantly changing with other devices, but have private access to explore the local world.

The developers knew what they were doing. In every even the slightest corner, either notes or various inscriptions are hidden, bit by bit telling about the universe of the game. Study – it’s at the root one of the strongest parts of the gamethere is a big bet on it.

crane that we are playing as a cat, the developers have worked out the vertical gameplay with high quality. You can climb on almost any roof or in any gap, because this is a small creature. The main thing is to see this opportunity.

Stylistically wandering particles of Cyberpunk 2077 with their slums and numerous neon signs that actively consume an excess of electricity in the city.

Gameplay-wise, the game is close to quests, where you need to once again disassemble a simple riddle to find a passage to the observed, or understand how to get this or that thing. The developers were able to neatly write the puzzles both in the story and in the gameplay. Nothing looks unnatural, everything is quite logical and easy. Just like a game about cats.

That is, this is not some frankly stupid bread simulator, but complete adventure game with his (albeit simple) wife and a well-developed world. Requesting profit here will not work at a bargain price:

one. The plot develops, albeit as linearly as possible, but interesting (in spirit it resembles Machinarium with an oppressive world and cute robots)

2. The game itself is short, I literally completed it in 5 hours

That is, it will turn out to run here very quickly (in one or two evenings), and the game will not have time to get bored during this time.

In terms of gameplay, the project combines various elements. Here you have both horror elements and stealth action. The latter is traditional for cats: you need to hide in cardboard boxes. True, only under certain conditions of the game. Not all boxes can be climbed – this is a drawback.

Say meow

The work of cats here is carried out at a high level, but not without flaws.

As we said above, you can run here almost everywhere. Kotlovko requires inspections, jumps high and climbs fast.

Animations repeat well: there are separate places on the map where you can lie down to sleep or just take a break, scratch sofas, tear trees against trees, wash your paws on the carpet, and so on. Admittedly, I didn’t quite like the animation of jumping from objects, but apparently it was the hardest to capture with a real cat.

You can even find a package in which the cat will happily stick his head, but the control is a little transplanted. Still, it is problematic to navigate in space with a bag on the face.

And for meowing there is a separate button! Peculiarity nice to play with gamepad PlayStation 5 when the cat starts purring. There are many variations of meowing, and you want to listen to them all the time. And some game elements even trigger on your sounds. For example, you can meow at the camera, and it will shake in approval. A trifle, but nice.

Speaking of horror moments, there are Zurks in Stray that look a lot like the named headcrabs from Half-Life, but with eye detection from the front. They feed on organics and metals.

But don’t think that they always get shot at. Sometimes they can be fought back.

There are not so many game mechanics in the game, but they are quite enough to beat this or that funny situation, imbue the cat even more and have fun.

This is the cutest game ever

In principle, answering the question why the game became a hit on Steam, the reason becomes clear. Here you are interested in the world, and a very cute protagonist, along with the “comrade” B-12, and gameplay that is unlike others.

This is a short game that you will most likely forget about in a month. But the time spent in it, you will not consider wasted.

Stray is available on Steam for 700 rubles and on PlayStation 5 for $30. Mac support is not available.


Source: Iphones RU

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