Stray preview: Cat adventure has us feline fine BlueTwelve Studio \/ Annapurna InteractiveStray, the upcoming title from indie dev, BlueTwelve Studio \u2013 where players step into the shoes of a furry feline for a post-apocalyptic adventure \u2013 is shaping up to be absolutely purrfect, if our hands-off preview is anything to go by. Go for a walk, Dog\u2019s Life, there\u2019s another, slinkier pet in town. In Stray, players will experience a futuristic cityscape, where adventure, puzzles, and one of the cutest little droids you\u2019ve ever seen come together in what may be one of the most unique games of 2022. In our hands-off preview, Dexerto had the chance to get a peek behind the curtain at gameplay in Stray, and what we saw had us eager to jump into the furry paws of this feline adventure. Move aside Lara Croft and Nathan Drake \u2013 there\u2019s a new explorer in town It has to be said \u2014 I\u2019m not a cat person. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like them per se, they are adorable \u2013 I\u2019ve just always had dogs as pets in my family. And yet, what I saw during Stray\u2019s hands-off preview session may have put my fondness for man\u2019s best friend to the ultimate test. Stray, this apocalyptic, mystery-based adventure game, which according to the team, will take about nine to ten hours to complete (if you\u2019re set on exploring and uncovering everything) is packed full of beautiful environments. Each of them tells its own tale \u2013 both through the world itself and the humanoid-looking robots inhabitants you\u2019ll meet there. With several stories in Stray to uncover, whether that\u2019s the cat\u2019s own journey, the city itself, or B12 (your little robot companion) there\u2019s plenty to learn. Speaking of B12, this cute drone is vital to uncovering the world and progressing throughout it, as it\u2019s able to translate text for you, examine items, and according to the devs, will get more powerful over time. As you explore together, you\u2019ll collect \u2018Memories\u2019, which are fragments of data that B12 gathers to teach you about the world and its lore. Read More: All PlayStation Plus Premium games – The feline protagonist is fantastically animated, using one of the game dev\u2019s own cats as a reference point. As it navigates this post-apocalyptic world, I was blown away by the effort that the team had put in to fully realize it. Swann Martin-Raget, the producer at BlueTwelve, stated that designing a game with a quadrupedal character wasn\u2019t easy, and there were plenty of technical challenges in regards to camera and animation \u2014 particularly due to its small size compared with the rest of the environment. It\u2019s a cat\u2019s life for me Throughout the presentation, it was evident that BlueTwelve has strived to make this virtual feline as realistic as possible in Stray. Whether it\u2019s by being able to scratch on doors (which can call someone inside to open it), sofas, floors, or taking stock and watching a bit of TV \u2013 it\u2019s all here. Specific areas will let you stretch out and take a well-earned nap, and there\u2019s even a meow button (because of course there is). Feel like annoying your NPCs or even yourself? Martin-Raget stated that some cutscenes can even be meowed through to be \u201cas annoying as you want to be.\u201d You\u2019ll even hear a little purr from time to time, and you\u2019re able to interact with the robots in this world and, in some instances, even be petted by them. Read More: The Quarry review – Using all your ultra-tuned feline skills, you\u2019ll knock items off of surfaces, block fans to progress to new areas, and even hop into a bucket tied by a bit of rope that makes for a perfect cat-sized elevator. There are plenty of physics-based puzzles to traverse, using the protagonist\u2019s weight to progress forward, stealth sections where you\u2019ll need to hide in cardboard boxes, or chases to escape an onslaught of enemies \u2013 some of who are blob-like creatures known as \u2018Zurks\u2019. This futuristic and simultaneously slightly retro action-adventure from BlueTwelve\u2019s small indie team looks to be packed full of content to explore and uncover in its short overall runtime, and I can\u2019t wait to explore this city once Stray arrives later this Summer on July 19, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stray preview: Cat adventure has us feline fine BlueTwelve Studio \/ Annapurna InteractiveStray, the upcoming title from indie dev, BlueTwelve Studio \u2013 where players step into the shoes of a furry feline for a post-apocalyptic adventure \u2013 is shaping up to be absolutely purrfect, if our hands-off preview is anything to go by. Go for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}