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Stray

BlueTwelve Studio · Annapurna Interactive · 2022-07-19

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AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 10, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 19, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 03, 2023 (Mac), Jul 19, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Jul 19, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Aug 10, 2023 (Xbox One)

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

746
playing now
97%
positive of 177k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
125
twitch viewers (latest)
85/100
critic score (8 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (725 ratings)
83/100
opencritic · strong · 84% recommend
6.9h
to beat · rushed 6.5h · completionist 13h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

746 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Stray is a 2022 adventure game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive. The story follows a stray cat who falls into a walled city populated by robots, machines, and mutant bacteria; the cat sets out to return to the surface with the help of a drone companion, B-12. The game is presented through a third-person perspective. The player traverses the game world by leaping across platforms and climbing up obstacles, and can interact with the environment to open new paths. Using B-12, they can store items found throughout the world and hack technology to solve puzzles. Throughout the game, the player must evade the antagonistic Zurks and Sentinels, which attempt to kill them.

Trailer

Stray trailer thumbnail

Stray - Official Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 746 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11,517 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,440/week).
  • · Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (54,826 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 11,252 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5M–7.9M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 176,656 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$22.75-24%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $11.39 at Fanatical (2026-08-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 105 of 134 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
54k54k20222026Week of 2022-07-01: 53,562 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,264 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14,961 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 519 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3,687 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3,726 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 150 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 14,937 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 159 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4,396 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 209 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3,866 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 179 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,834 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,848 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,348 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,324 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1,090 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2,217 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,875 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,326 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,183 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2,032 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2,484 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,929 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,367 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,480 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,280 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,156 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,397 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,876 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,741 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 871 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 754 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,251 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2,093 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,804 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,072 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,547 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,199 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 908 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,260 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,630 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,024 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1,046 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,278 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,016 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,385 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,680 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 862 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,285 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1,105 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,363 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,646 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1,820 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 387 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

9862342026-08-06 21:00 — 519 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 306 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 486 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 552 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 329 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 579 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 604 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 385 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 673 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 624 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 280 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 481 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 511 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 263 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 471 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 459 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 254 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 521 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 665 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 282 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 345 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 505 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 318 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 713 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 966 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 590 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 606 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 986 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 746 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$9.992022-05-302026-08-262022-05-30 — best price $99.992022-08-01 — best price $29.992022-11-29 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-08-18 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-02-26 — best price $29.992024-05-23 — best price $19.792024-07-14 — best price $29.992024-07-25 — best price $14.392024-08-07 — best price $24.972024-08-27 — best price $29.992024-10-29 — best price $22.982024-12-05 — best price $17.992025-01-25 — best price $29.992025-03-13 — best price $12.212025-04-03 — best price $29.992025-04-27 — best price $21.592025-06-09 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-08-04 — best price $21.592025-09-04 — best price $29.992025-10-01 — best price $17.992025-10-17 — best price $17.692025-11-19 — best price $11.992025-12-17 — best price $17.992026-01-08 — best price $12.212026-02-17 — best price $29.992026-03-04 — best price $16.992026-03-31 — best price $29.992026-04-17 — best price $22.982026-04-27 — best price $14.452026-05-15 — best price $22.982026-06-02 — best price $14.292026-06-25 — best price $9.992026-07-15 — best price $14.992026-08-01 — best price $25.272026-08-12 — best price $12.142026-08-26 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.2k4902026-05-28 — 941 pageviews2026-05-31 — 1,008 pageviews2026-06-03 — 974 pageviews2026-06-06 — 813 pageviews2026-06-09 — 675 pageviews2026-06-12 — 559 pageviews2026-06-15 — 589 pageviews2026-06-18 — 519 pageviews2026-06-21 — 602 pageviews2026-06-24 — 490 pageviews2026-06-27 — 614 pageviews2026-06-30 — 529 pageviews2026-07-03 — 531 pageviews2026-07-06 — 590 pageviews2026-07-09 — 625 pageviews2026-07-12 — 579 pageviews2026-07-15 — 497 pageviews2026-07-18 — 734 pageviews2026-07-21 — 566 pageviews2026-07-24 — 499 pageviews2026-07-27 — 548 pageviews2026-07-30 — 581 pageviews2026-08-02 — 589 pageviews2026-08-05 — 565 pageviews2026-08-08 — 536 pageviews2026-08-11 — 565 pageviews2026-08-14 — 529 pageviews2026-08-17 — 540 pageviews2026-08-20 — 521 pageviews2026-08-23 — 659 pageviews2026-08-25 — 651 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.9k72026-08-24 10:12 — 1,875 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 109 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 33 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 140 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 59 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 46 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 47 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 90 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 210 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 125 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 89 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 32 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 238 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 11 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 60 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 72 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 135 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 39 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 71 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 50 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 110 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 66 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 51 viewers2026-08-29 19:35 — 81 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 108 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 140 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 46 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 18 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 104 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 125 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
93%
earned "Missed Jump"
20.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

16 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)109,52024%25
PS4 (PlayStation)53,58813%25
Steam (Steam)47,47810%24
PS4 (PlayStation)40,33616%25
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)9,3009%24
PS4 (PlayStation)2,27151%25
PS4 (PlayStation)1,24451%25
Switch (Nintendo)4150%0
Switch (Nintendo)1420%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CatsCuteIndieHorrorPuzzleRobotsSci-fiAdventureBeautifulCyberpunk

Census log

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

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