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Stray for PC is an action adventure game in which the player takes on the third person persona of a stray cat who stumbles into a mysterious walled city. The walled city is based on the real Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, a now-demolished area that lent itself well to strangeness, mystery and a touch of rebellion – the reason, perhaps, for the real life demolition. About the Game The game’s beginning is the same for all players: you start out above ground, travelling in a group of four other cats (your friends? Your family? Who knows!) and accidentally tumble down into the walled city. It doesn’t take long for you to find an apparently derelict laboratory and load up a drone, called B-12 (like the vitamin) with an AI consciousness which explains that it used to help a scientist but has suffered catastrophic memory loss for unknown reasons. The memory loss is something from which it is still slowly recovering. You take the B-12 with you, as he (it?) is useful for a number of reasons (for more about which, see below), tethering him to you with a cute little backpack. As you play, B-12 will occasionally reveal odds and ends of memory as they are recovered. These have the effect of tweaking your story arc with new revelations and ideas about where to go next. B-12 agrees to help you, playing as the cat, returning to the surface and its companions and they set off only to find that there are no humans left – but their robot companions have remained behind and thrived. The walled city is populated by robots, viruses and machines (such as drones), and you are aided by your own personal drone, B-12 as you navigate through the streets. It’s not all fun and friendly robots though, there are threats too. Zurks are a sentient cat-hating (or loving, depending on how you look at i