Stray

Stray was one of my favourite games of 2022 with its hauntingly beautiful rendition of a post-apocalypse through the razor-sharp eyes of a lovable feline. Later releases of the game, particularly on Nintendo Switch, pushed the hardware to its limits, marring the true visual fidelity of the indie darling. With its arrival on the Nintendo Switch 2, Stray from BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive takes advantage of the beefier hardware, delivering an experience more in line with its initial release on PlayStation and Xbox. For those unfamiliar with Stray , the cat-focused adventure follows the titular feline on a quest to reunite with his clowder, ultimately getting caught up in a fight against waste-eating parasites and robotic humanoids in a short but sweet puzzle adventure game. As players assume the role of a cat, Stray forgoes any spoken dialogue, relying instead on text and a well-realized cohesion of beeps and boops against meows and other, sometimes more... Read more

A Nintendo Switch 2 edition for Stray was released today, with upgraded visuals for the occasion. After warming the hearts of cat-loving gamers in 2022 , Stray is bringing the feline fun to the Nintendo Switch 2 starting today as a digital copy on the Nintendo eShop. Fresh features for the Nintendo Switch 2 edition include upgraded visuals, 4K, improved frame rate, and mouse control. For those living in Japan, you can expect to see a physical edition of Stray for the Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in the future. Stray is an adventure game where you play as a cat travelling through a far-future cyberpunk environment, leaping across obstacles, climbing terrain, and solving puzzles to progress your journey. You can meow at and nuzzle up to the NPCs of the game, robot citizens of this cyberpunk city. You are accompanied by B-12, a drone companion that translates languages, stores items, and helps this cat interact with the more technological parts of puzzles that those paws... Read more