Stray (video game)
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Stray is a Cyberpunk adventure game developed and published by indie developer BlueTwelve Studios and published by Annapurna Interactive in 2022 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The game follows an unnamed tabby cat as it is separated from its colony and stumbles upon a dystopian city inhabited by robots and mutants known as Zurks, which are known to eat both organic and even metallic matter. Guiding the stray is a small drone known as B-12, who helps the cat with its journey back to the surface in hopes of reuniting with its family.
Development of the game began in 2015, under the newly-formed BlueTwelve Studio founded by Colas Koola and Vivien Mermet-Guyenet—known as Koola and Viv, respectively—who set out to create an independent project after working for Ubisoft Montpellier. The game's dystopian setting was also inspired by the famed Kowloon Walled City, whose favela-like structure and culture surrounding it spawned countless works of fiction.
- After the End: Humanity is long gone, having been decimated by a plague prior to the events of the game, leaving just faint memories to the robots left behind.
- Amnesiac Hero: B-12, having its memories corrupted due to its dormancy. Helping it reconstruct its memories forms part of the plot.
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: The cat appears to be quite intelligent for its species, having at least some rudimentary grasp of technology and ability to solve complex problems.
- Brain Uploading: B-12 was a human scientist all along, who vainly attempted to upload their consciousness into a suitable robot body prior to the cat's arrival.
- Creator Cameo: B-12 is named after developer BlueTwelve Studio's logo.
- Ink Suit Actor: The cat protagonist is modelled after Murtaugh, one of the founders' cats who was an actual stray they rescued off the streets of Montpellier.