Stray : Review Thread

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Right now Stray is:
  • Top 1 in Steam top sellers
  • 10.6K Steam user reviews (97.44% positive)
  • 62,963 all-time Steam concurrent users peak
  • 284,027 all-time Twitch viewers peak
  • Metacritic: 84 PS5, 84 PC
  • Opencritic: 84 critic average, 92% of critics recommend

Stray

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find the way home. Stray is a third-person cat adventure game set amidst the detailed neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity and the murky environments of its seedy...
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Stray Reviews

Stray is rated 'Mighty' after being reviewed by 179 critics, with an overall average score of 84. It's ranked in the top 9% of games and recommended by 87% of critics.
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As reference, As Dusk Falls (also released yesterday but in Gamepass):
  • Top 56 in Steam top sellers
  • 24 Steam user reviews (95.83% positive)
  • 198 all-time Steam concurrent users peak
  • 45,953 all-time Twitch viewers peak
  • Metacritic: 77 Xbox, 79 PC
  • Opencritic: 77 critic average, 74% critics recommend

As Dusk Falls

Every Family has Secrets. Every Secret has a Price. As Dusk Falls is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT that explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong in small town Arizona, the choices you make have a powerful...
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As Dusk Falls Reviews

As Dusk Falls is rated 'Strong' after being reviewed by 96 critics, with an overall average score of 79. It's ranked in the top 25% of games and recommended by 70% of critics.
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Yurinka said:
Right now Stray is:
  • Top 1 in Steam top sellers
  • 10.6K Steam user reviews (97.44% positive)
  • 62,963 all-time Steam concurrent users peak
  • 284,027 all-time Twitch viewers peak
  • Metacritic: 84 PS5, 84 PC
  • Opencritic: 84 critic average, 92% of critics recommend

Stray

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find the way home. Stray is a third-person cat adventure game set amidst the detailed neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity and the murky environments of its seedy...
www.metacritic.com www.metacritic.com
opencritic.com

Stray Reviews

Stray is rated 'Mighty' after being reviewed by 179 critics, with an overall average score of 84. It's ranked in the top 9% of games and recommended by 87% of critics.
opencritic.com opencritic.com

As reference, As Dusk Falls (also released yesterday but in Gamepass):
  • Top 56 in Steam top sellers
  • 24 Steam user reviews (95.83% positive)
  • 198 all-time Steam concurrent users peak
  • 45,953 all-time Twitch viewers peak
  • Metacritic: 77 Xbox, 79 PC
  • Opencritic: 77 critic average, 74% critics recommend

As Dusk Falls

Every Family has Secrets. Every Secret has a Price. As Dusk Falls is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT that explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong in small town Arizona, the choices you make have a powerful...
www.metacritic.com www.metacritic.com
opencritic.com

As Dusk Falls Reviews

As Dusk Falls is rated 'Strong' after being reviewed by 96 critics, with an overall average score of 79. It's ranked in the top 25% of games and recommended by 70% of critics.
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There are no numbers for psn, buts it's right at that top of trending aswell.
 
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As I figured I'm having no issues, I'm averaging about 140 FPS and it's running like any other game would. It's not some magic PC, it's just a really powerful one that's bloat free and well configured.

Also as I said I'm using an AMD GPU which is an outlier and likely not what anyone used for reviews. Most "issues" don't exist for me in general.
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I'm not experiencing stutter issues with Steam deck either. I'll try on my RTX 3090 when I get home tomorrow.
 
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Papacheeks said:
You wonder if people who tested PC port didn't have ryzen?
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I don't know. I suspect that there is no stutter on the Nvidia boards either. There are a lot of UE games that I play and I don't get stuttering on most of them.
 
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DynamiteCop said:
This is what I was saying earlier and being laughed at by ignorant people, configuration matters.
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I mean if they developed primarily targets to PS5 then I would assume your code would work a little better on ryzen systems?
 
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The developers have confirmed the bug, it's to do with Shader compilation, as I said, they have also said that the stutter is a lot less noticeable with a fast SSD, so it's not really dependant on either AMD or Nvidia. It's to do with IO. It's likely your just brute forcing it to a point it isn't noticeable. Then again I guess you spent well over 1k on your PC, so are hardly an average user.

 
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Cragarmi said:
The developers have confirmed the bug, it's to do with Shader compilation, as I said, they have also said that the stutter is a lot less noticeable with a fast SSD, so it's not really dependant on either AMD or Nvidia. It's to do with IO. It's likely your just brute forcing it to a point it isn't noticeable. Then again I guess you spent well over 1k on your PC, so are hardly an average user.
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So basically what I said from the beginning and people were arguing with me about..
 
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I played this about 30 minutes last night. I am loving this game! So much atmosphere and charm. No, It's not super complicated, but it feels fresh and relaxing to play, and the design and feel of the game is great IMO. Feels like cat Blade Runner so far. :p

Glad I bought it, and wish we would get more shorter creative experiences like this.
 
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Would love to play it but I am so busy this week that I come too tired from work
 
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Bodycount611 said:
too bad about the game being unplayable and downright broken on PC. Really it's too bad.

oh well, it's back to CounterStrike 1.6 and lawn simulator.
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Game plays perfectly fine... trust me, I'd bitch about it if it didn't.
 
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This could be a problem as he keeps rushing the screen.

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Stray is the big normie game rn on social media it seems. Sony did good picking that game up as a deal it seems for PS EXTRA
 
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Played for maybe an hour on ps5.
Looks great and the music/vibe is good.
I know it's an indie game but lack of any HDR is such a miss ;/
and the game is very hand holdy so far. the press "x" is getting boring already.
BUt I dig the atmosphere. I will play it more... just not today. I am to tired to something like this now. Makes me want to go to sleep :p
 
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