For real, though. Stray is a fun little game, even if it's short. You can probably find it for dirt cheap if it's not already included on your preferred gaming platform. I played it via ps+ only a few months after it came out.
It 100% does. I didn’t play it either but I watched a streamer complete it instead of working one day and I don’t feel like he and I really had a much different experience of it
It’s graphically beautiful and a creative story, but I agree $45 is steep. $30 would be more palatable but honesty I’d wait for a sale at $20ish if you’re really interested
I believe the devs were also using this as kind of a tech demo too? Not sure I'm remembering right, but I recall them saying they have other similarly cat themed works planned and were using Stray to show off the animation/visual chops they were working on.