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Once A Stray cover art

Once A Stray

Ross Winters · Fire Fighter Games · 2019-01-28

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 28, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A brave cat named Auguen, indebted to the spirit Bennet, undertakes a series of quests in order to save their city from a plague cast upon by the necromancer Lazarus.

Once A Stray is an Action, Adventure game released in 2019, free-to-play, with a Positive review sentiment (83% of 12 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 12 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 150% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 93% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320192025Week of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

Player tags

ActionAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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