Stray is an upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive indie-game that will allow people to play as the Internet's favorite animal: a kitty cat. As the title suggests, players will take control of a stray cat, and will venture around a futuristic Toyko-Esque city in a search for a way to get back home.
Annapurna Interactive will publish the game when it releases, and Blue Twelve Studios is currently developing it. The duo revealed the game with an announcement teaser-trailer during Sony's PlayStation 5 reveal event. Stray will launch sometime in 2021, though, Annapurna and BlueTwelve didn't disclose when.
On the surface, the teaser for this Annapurna PS5 game doesn't seem to provide much information on what players can expect from the title. In reality, though, it houses tons of details that viewers may have missed on their first watch.
The game takes place in a world where humans have seemingly gone extinct, and in their stead, robots now rule the planet. Said robots have taken on human-based societal constructs. They wear clothes and work for a living, with some so poor that they live on street corners and scavenge through trash to find necessities.
It appears the robots even understand art and can express themselves. A respectful — or possibly even sinister — graffiti message created by them is what lets viewers know that humans have gone extinct in the first place.
What exactly happened to the humans will be up to the player to figure out — at least, that's the assumption. Stray's premise says that if the stray cat wants to get back to its family, it must "untangle an ancient mystery," which, if the trailer is anything to go off, is what happened to humans. The premise also says that the futuristic city the player explores is "long-forgotten," which offers its own questions.
Viewers can identify the player's cat as the one with the strange device strapped to its back. It seems to have picked it up sometime during its travels in the teaser. What the tool does exactly remains a mystery, but it more than likely has something to do with the gameplay. Maybe it helps the player catalog the answers to whatever secrets they solve around the city.
Viewers will have to wait for a gameplay showcase of the PS5 title to find out. There's no indication of when the next update for Stray will happen, though.
Stray will launch for the PlayStation 5 sometime in 2021.