Stray — Steam Gift

Stray for Steam: an adventure as a cat in a city of robots

Stray is one of those rare adventures where you happily forget about action and just live someone else's story. You play as an ordinary ginger cat who slips off the edge of a pipe and falls into an underground city beneath a giant dome. Humans left long ago — the streets, bars and rooftops are now home to companion robots that wear jackets, read comics and fear the dark just like you do. The game launched on 19 July 2022, made by the small BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive, known for atmospheric, character-driven projects.

Here you're buying the full version of the game for Steam, which we deliver as a Steam Gift. Below you'll find what Stray includes, how the gift delivery works and what to double-check before ordering so everything goes smoothly.

What Stray is about

Stray is a third-person adventure focused on exploration, light puzzles and atmosphere. Most of the time you climb through the neon back-alleys of the Walled City: leaping across pipes, air conditioners and signs, squeezing through gaps, knocking cans off shelves and scratching rugs — everything we love cats for. Helping you is a tiny drone companion, B-12, who translates the robots' speech, carries the items you find and slowly remembers its own past.

This isn't a shooter or a leveling game. Stray is closer to a calm, cinematic adventure for one or two cozy evenings: you uncover what happened to the city and its inhabitants, help the local robots and search for a way out, toward the light. The game earned outstanding player reviews on Steam and became Annapurna Interactive's biggest PC launch at the time.

What's included in this purchase

You get the full base version of Stray — the entire main story, from the fall into the city to the finale. It's a complete adventure, no early access or cut-down build: you play from start to finish. On Steam, Stray has no separate paid story add-ons required to complete it — so you don't need to buy anything extra to see the whole game.

• The complete single-player Stray campaign.
• Support for Windows and macOS (on Apple M-series chips).
• Excellent Steam Deck compatibility.
• The game stays in your Steam library forever once the gift is accepted.

How we deliver the gift (Steam Gift)

Stray comes to you not as a key but as a proper Steam Gift. The mechanic is simple and safe for your account:

• You provide your Steam friend invite link and your account region.
• After payment, our bot adds itself to your friends and sends the gift — usually within a couple of minutes. You don't need to accept the friend request yourself.
• You accept the gift in Steam, and Stray lands in your library.
• After delivery, the bot automatically removes itself from your friends.

Steam Guard is not required — the gift can be received on an account without it. Accepting the gift doesn't require the account to already own a game or have any prior activity.

Region and the key library condition

Steam gifts are tied to a region. That's why your Steam account region must match the gift region — otherwise Steam simply won't let you accept it. This option covers a wide set of countries (around 47 regions); enter in the field exactly the region your account uses.

The second common reason a gift can't be accepted is that the game is already in the library. Steam won't let you accept a gift for a game you already own. So make sure Stray isn't yet on the account you're ordering for. Also check that adding friends is allowed in your profile privacy settings — otherwise our bot can't reach you.

Platforms and Steam Deck

This purchase is the Steam version (PC on Windows and Mac on Apple Silicon). Stray runs beautifully on Steam Deck and supports a controller, so you can play the cat both on the couch and on the go. Stray versions for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch exist, but they're sold in their own stores and are not part of this gift.

If you love games like this

Stray is for players who value atmospheric, author-driven adventures where story and mood matter more than difficulty. If that quiet beauty clicks with you, take a look at other games in the same spirit: the space mystery Outer Wilds, the meditative trip Journey, and the eerie puzzle-platformer Little Nightmares — all about exploration and strong mood, just like Stray.

Quick checklist before buying

Stray is a cozy, gorgeous and complete cat adventure that we deliver as a Steam gift. Check three things: your account region matches the gift region, Stray isn't already in the library, and friend requests are allowed. Then the bot usually sends the gift within a couple of minutes, and the cat is yours.