Stray, the video game to put yourself in the shoes of a cat that likes … even cats

Stray, the human video game that drives cats crazy

But the cats themselves like it a lot too. To the point that people have begun to film their furry ones while, enchanted, they look at the screen and, even, interact with the cat in the video.

In Stray the protagonist is in fact a cat who tries to find his stray friends by moving in an abandoned underground city (inspired by the walled city of Kowloon, once an independent and overpopulated district of Hong Kong) populated by robots, machines and carnivorous bacteria. The Multiplayer video game enthusiasts they assure that it is done well, very well: all the extraordinary feline manias, from the passion for boxes to the habit of getting nails everywhere, are reproduced so that the player can identify himself as much as possible.

Boxes, purrs and meows: a universe reproduced to perfection

But how well it is done is shown by the felines themselves: the Twitter account @CatsWatchStray has over 34,000 followers and has tweeted 556 times as of Thursday. The posts are short videos of cats with her paw shaking in disbelief and her motionless eye enchanted in front of the screen.

Videos and apps dedicated to felines

There has long been a production of videos specially designed to attract the attention of cats with birds, colors, flapping wings, squirrels, voices of the forest (there are ad hoc channels on Youtube). But also real video games for smartphones that encourage the cat to interact. How, for one thing, Cat Alone 1 and 2: gIchi for cats for free very unloaded “inhabited” by feathers that move, lights that move, spiders to crush and mice that run away.

Yet Stray, meant for their masters, seems to work even better.

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