Stray ending explained: What does the cat game’s final moment mean?

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By Rob Leane

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If you jumped into Stray immediately after it came out, you may well have reached the Stray ending already. After all, the game is only five or so hours long.

Unlike a lot of modern games, Stray does not have an open-ended final act that lets you keep on playing after the main story has wrapped up. Once the credits roll, the game is well and truly over.

If you want to go back to pick up some more Stray collectables and earn a few extra Stray trophies, you’ll have to reload a previous chapter (just try to load your game the way you normally would, and you’ll see a ‘chapter select’ option).

If you’ve seen the Stray ending, then, we’re here to answer your key questions. Keep on reading and we’ll run through them! Stray spoilers from this point onwards.

Things do not exactly end well for B-12, your trusty robot companion in Stray. In the final Control Room chapter, B-12 works out that the processing power it takes to override the system and open up the city will fry his little drone body.

B-12 does it anyway. He works with the cat to hack/smash into the computers in the Control Room, receiving an almighty series of electronic zaps along the way. Unable to keep going, his drone body falls to the ground. B-12 appears to die, and the cat sleeps next to his lifeless robot body for a while.

This player was hoping that B-12’s garbled technobabble voice would emerge from one of the computers, revealing that B-12 survived and transferred his consciousness to a different kind of hardware. Sadly, though, nothing like this happens and we are left to assume that