Legendary Strays: 8 More Intriguing Games Where You Play As a Cat

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Cats are adorable and fascinating, and that's why Stray has gotten a lot of attention. Your meowing, pouncing, knocking-things-over experience doesn't have to start and end at the latest game from Annapurrna (Eh? Ehhhhh?) Interactive, though. Many other games let you play as a cat. Some are cartoonish, some are anthropomorphic, and many are just sitting on shelves and batting at things. Most of them are available on modern platforms.

This game might be the closest to actually feeling like a cat as you play it, mostly because the entire game is about jumping on shelves and knocking things over. You're a cat in a house, and you need to cause as much havoc as you can in a time limit. It was so meme-worthy and got so much attention that a Remeowstered(Opens in a new window) edition came out last year. Oh, and it has VR support.

Playing as a cat is one thing, but playing as a cat who comes home to a small, shrinking, former mining town after dropping out of college? That's Night in the Woods(Opens in a new window). It doesn't have much pouncing or chasing red dots, but it does have loads of humor while exploring some very real personal and regional anxieties with fantastic writing. There's a reason it won a BAFTA.

Cat in a mech suit! You can tell in the name Gato Roboto(Opens in a new window), from the Spanish "gato," meaning cat, and "roboto," meaning Styx's second best song. It's a cat-based Metroidvania in simple, monochrome pixel art similar to Minit(Opens in a new window) and Downwell(Opens in a new window). You can even get out of your mech suit and run around as a regular cat to get through small passages!

In Rain World(Opens in a new window), you only play as half a cat. The other half is kind of a slug thing, but you