The new "Stray" video game is helping real-world cats. Gamers are streaming their gameplay experience and the proceeds are being donated to animal shelters.

About 80% of the game’s development team are “cat owners and cat lovers” and a real-life orange stray as well as their own cats helped inspire the game, one creator said.

"Stray" is a new sci-fi video game about a lost cat in a robot city, and it's quickly become a hit since launching this week.

This week, two of the most passionate communities online — gamers and cat lovers — collided with the release of a new video game that lets you play as an adorable orange tabby cat.

Specifically, he was on the cat case. In "Stray," a video game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive, you play as a cat.

So you won’t be surprised to learn that Stray, a game that lets you traipse through the streets of a mysterious, dystopic cybercity as a cat, was immediately popular upon launch this week.

Stray is a one-of-a-kind video game that is so much more than a source of cat puns. The settings are stunning and bustling with characters that are easy to love.

In the new video game Stray, you’re a stray cat on a quest to make it home safely in a city populated by droids and dangerous creatures.

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"Stray" was announced in summer 2020, and shortly thereafter it colloquially became known as "the cat game." After spending nine hours with and completing "Stray" — sorry, the cat game — I can ...

The virtual cat hero from the new video game sensation “Stray” doesn’t just wind along rusted pipes, leap over unidentified sludge and decode clues in a seemingly abandoned city. The daring ...