Game Thoughts: Stray

In 2022, developer BlueTwelve Studio and publisher Annapurna Interactive released Stray, an immersive, sci-fi roleplaying game in which the player takes on the roll of a young, orange tabby cat who lives in a grown-over structure with their three siblings. While exploring one morning, the cat falls into a walled-in city, which has been sealed off for centuries to prevent “contamination” from the Outside (capitalized in the game, as “the Outside” is considered by most to be a myth). At first, the...