Stray

Stray

Developers
	BlueTwelve Studio
Publishers
	Annapurna Interactive
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	July 19, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	82
OpenCritic	84
IGDB	86

Stray is a 2022 third-person adventure-game. The player controls a stray cat who falls into a world populated by robots and ventures to return to its family. Players must solve puzzles to progress the narrative, including moving obstacles and traversing platforms. The player is accompanied by a drone-companion named B12, who can assist by translating the language of the robots and storing items found throughout the world.

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Green Man Gaming
Steam

All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Hk_project\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1332010/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Hk_project\Saved\SaveGames\<user-id>\Slots\Slot_*\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1332010/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphic Settings (1).

Graphic Settings (2).

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Cutscenes are pre-rendered and pillarboxed.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Uncheck the Fullscreen box to play in Borderless Windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Forces TAA. SSAA up to 200% through Render Resolution.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		30, 60, or Unlimited.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)		Can be enabled by running the game with the -dx12 command line argument and adding r.RayTracing=1 to GameUserSettings.ini. Can cause visual bugs and performance is hugely taxing on early 2020s hardware.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Can also invert x-axis
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts		Use DS4 Mod by Mr.Funky Right
Light bar support		Blue light
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	v2 tested, only wired connection detected.

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Can be disabled in settings.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Controller and Keyboard/Mouse button prompts rapidly flash based on the last input method used.

Audio

Volume Settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Volume sliders for Master Volume, Music, and SFX.
Surround sound		No Center Channel. Confirmed audio for other channels up to 7.1 with Special K.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Can be disabled by adding these two lines to Engine.ini file: [Audio]; UnfocusedVolumeMultiplier=1.0.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

The UI and subtitle languages can be changed in-game.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic				Fan translation by Eternal Dream, Download.
Arabic				Fan translation by AR Team, download.
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Indonesian				Fan translation by IGTC Team (Indonesia Game Translator Community)
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Thai				Fan translation, download.
Turkish
Ukrainian				Fan translation, download

Issues fixed

Cannot play in fullscreen if the resolution is different than native

Force fullscreen from .ini file
This makes it possible using AMD FSR integrated in Wine/Proton, for example. Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hk_project\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini in a text editor. Change the following lines like this: FullscreenMode=0 LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=0 PreferredFullscreenMode=0 Save GameUserSettings.ini as read-only just to be sure.[dubious – discuss]

Alleviate or eliminate shader compilation stutter

Force enable shader preloading[citation needed]

This alleviates most of the shader compilation stutter by enabling shader preloading on load. Will exacerbate the stuttering caused by loading/checkpoints between gameplay sections as the CPU is crunching on compiling shaders. Doesn´t work when forcing the game to use DirectX 12 instead of the default DirectX 11. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hk_project\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor. Open Engine.ini with a text editor. Add the following lines as a new paragraph at the bottom of the file and then save the file: [/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2300 AMD FX-6350	Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 2600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti AMD Radeon R7 360 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 AMD Radeon R9 290X 3 GB (Nvidia), 4 GB (AMD) of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.