Stray
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. A BANGER at $7.79, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2022 (lowest $14.99, May 2026).
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.77/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 179,966
- Critics
- 82 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.79 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.2h
- To 100%
- 10.3h 2.0x the story
- Achievements
- 24
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 May 2026
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 554 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
41 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. $7.79 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Its score puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure ($1.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats CAT Interstellar ($0.89, scores 34).
More about Stray
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 983 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 12,508 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
179,966 reviews stand behind that percentage.
At 5.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 17 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
You cat to be kitten me! I bought this expecting something a lot more mundane and ok, turns out its absolutely fantastic. The visual style and atmosphere are absolutely impeccable. The music and sounds effects are also wonderful and very relaxing, a pleasure to listen to, and you might get the opportunity to do just that since there's an achievement to chill out and purr while listening to music for an hour. The...
2 more reviews
Stray is fantastic and one of those games where I just can't put it into words. It's not a long game, it's not mechanically difficult or complex. But it has me feeling for the Cat and the robots throughout. You wander through a beautiful, broken cybercity and slowly unravel what happened to the world below. I highly highly recommend this game because despite stressful moments - playing as a Cat is so relaxing and...
The visuals, ambience, cutscenes, portrayed personalities of interact-able characters, and overall messaging in Stray, are all so expansive and they really do a great job of dragging you into the world building. I loved pretty much every second of this game, even if sometimes i found it a little tricky to figure out some of the tasks. I highly recommend playing this awesome game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Stray scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1332010/strayReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.