I played Stray last week, it was in the backlog so I figured why not.
It was interesting but weird and oddly short. You play as a stray cat who falls into a decaying cybercity and tries to navigate thru it with the assistance of a robot drone that is trying to piece together it's corrupted memories and figure out wtf happened to the city and why there are no humans left in it.
I beat it in under 8 hours (the save file says 5:45, but there were some lengthy periods of time where I'd get up and leave to do other stuff and let the clock run) while doing pretty much everything there was to do. The controls are also kind of janky for a platformer, though none of the puzzles/platforming is difficult enough for it to really pose a problem.
I dunno, it came out in 2022 and I probably would have appreciated it more at that time. The graphics are fine, but there's so many games that have been more recently released that are 'woah' level graphics (Death Stranding 2, Horizon 2, Alan Wake 2, Ghost of Yotei, etc), and this pales big time compared to those.
Story was solid/interesting... but it ends and it's like, "oh, that was it? Really?"
I dunno, if you can get it for free you can do worse... but, I wouldn't recommend spending money on it.
