I can second this. I had a really nice time playing Stray.
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My partner played it, and I watched every second while she did. I just wanted to see where it went.
Really beautiful, clearly a lot of work into animations and fluidity. And for gameplay, I absolutely loved the verticality. Stray was such an enjoyable experience and I'm kinda sad I can't play it twice, or that I learned about some of the ENBs after I'd already finished. It's not especially replayable.
I really recommend it, too. It's length is actually a reason why - all of the time I spent playing Stray felt rewarding. Long games just can't spend the manhours and drive space being dense; imo shorter dense games are far more rewarding than longer games.
Stray is such a sweet game. I loved the story and how the environment felt so alive. All the NPC's felt like they belonged there and had purpose. The small details that made you go "yep, these Devs definitely own cats" and the way the robots interacted with you was so real somehow.
My 65+ year old MIL is playing it now and it has really captured her. I hope we get more innovative games like that, I'm getting sick of the open world crap they're constantly churning out.
Stray is a great game, wasn’t too scary and one I could play and not worry about kids watching. Plus they liked to tell me what to do and got into it cause it’s a cat! I highly recommend the game and I was just reading it might come to the gamepass which would be great.
It’s fun just slinking around as a cat!
I played it for about one hour and then asked Steam to refund me. If some sort of gameplay mechanics where there they did nothing for me.
It's certainly not for everyone. Wow, I didn't know you could get a refund after playing the game, that's pretty nice.
On PC this is only the case if you buy through steam. They have refunds because an EU court forced the issue a while back iirc.
Basically, any steam game can be automatically refunded if you put in a request with less than 2 hours of playtime in the game and within 14 days of purchase. You can sometimes refund past that point too but then it gets reviewed by a human and may not be approved if the reason is just "I don't like it".
Within 2 weeks of purchase and under 2 hours played, you can request a refund on Steam.
I tried to like it, but just couldn't get into it. Glad to see indy devs become successful though!
Worth noting it’s also on PC.
I originally played it in a less-than ethical manner. Loved it so much I paid for it as soon as the finances allowed.