Stray
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $7.87, only fair at $29.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $5.77/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. 40 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. $7.87 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crypt Custodian ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats CAT Interstellar ($0.89, scores 34).
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 500 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,008 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 12,477 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
177,803 reviews stand behind that percentage.
At 5.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
498 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I genuinely didn't expect to love this game as much as I did. One of my favorite things is how much the game actually lets you be a cat. You can curl up and sleep in cozy little spots, scratch furniture and other surfaces, rub against things, knock things over...all those tiny cat behaviors are actually part of the experience. It's such a simple thing, but it makes the world feel so much more inmersive. But what...
It felt to me like a mix of Mirror's Edge (gameplay), Beyond Good & Evil (story-ish), and Silent Hill f (visuals), with an adorable cat as the main character. Easy to play, nicely looking, interesting story. I highly recommend to play it.
Stray is just a good game. It has nice environments and scenery, especially considering we're in underground cities. The developers have made them actually look nice, not just dull. Playing as a cat of all things in a run-down city inhabited by robots is a good, unique concept, and the story ties it all together well. The graphics are also good, and the game is better than plenty of triple A games, which considering...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Stray scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1332010/strayThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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