STRAY Story + Ending EXPLAINED! What Happens Next?

STRAY Story + Ending EXPLAINED! What Happens Next?

00:00 How it Began?
1:56 Finding B12
4:00 Heading to Midtown
7:15 Betrayed and Sent to Jail
8:00 ENDING EXPLAINED

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[VideoGameSophistry]

00:00 How it Began?
1:56 Finding B12
4:00 Heading to Midtown
7:15 Betrayed and Sent to Jail
8:00 ENDING EXPLAINED

[a_smile]

"You were my best friend, the very best I could ask for" - *B-12* <3

[ArkyBarky]

Also notice as you "go up in society" the robots become more "simple" like in the slums they are very homely loving and more creative, then the antvillage They are less so and more closed off to the people around them, than in midtown they become restrictive and controlling literally stoping expression are thought other than what they wan, and then finally you get to the control room where the robots are just drones.

I hope this makes sense

(Edited for clarity)

[nickj]

I think B12 didn't die, i think it actually uploaded his mind into the whole system, i guess that would explain the centinels going off and the screens turning on at the very end, just like they did in the begining, which was b-12's thing.

[SaoryEmanoelle]

I cried SO MUCH with this ending, goddamnit. This game is wonderful. The only thing I wanted was to be able to go back down and talk to everyone now that they're free. Except then I realized we wouldn't understand what they're saying... Still, I'd love to see Clementine, Doc, Zbalthazar and Momo again :')

[czaczaczar]

The sequel or DLC should be about the cat exploring the outside looking for his family or exploring other cities. It's revealed near the ending that the city is called Walled City 99 so there must be other cities.

[mccuish]

I like the idea of an open ending since I'd love to see a sequel

[alexolas]

It occurred to me that the zurks might not have been entirely destroyed. The largest concentration of zurks, and perhaps the center of the zurk “hive mind”, was in *the sewers* – a place completely out of reach of the new sunlight.

[KarlRock]

Such a cool game! I just finished it. I wish it was longer. There’s so much potential there, I hope they follow up with a sequel.

[liamgamer]

My theory on this was that the humans actually transferred their minds into software, including the machines. My thinking behind this started when we meet the control room and the robots were simply drones. They were the original concept of what they were created to be.

I think in the slum area, there's some blurb about how they evolved as machines and adopted personalities, but that was so long ago, everyone has forgotten. But if that were the case, then the drones would have also changed and evolved, but they didn't, because they didn't get uploaded into. It also explains why some of the robots have family, and yet cannot reproduce, it's because they were family before the upload. Might also explain their want for food and drink, and the fact that they keep onto jobs that are completely useless to their eco-system.

Because the human mind can't cope with that kind of longevity, they have all simply forgotten and are almost in a zombified state of want/needs, but don't understand why.


I know it's a stretch, but that was just my 2 cents on Stray. Fun game though!

[NBABIGANT]

Man this game was phenomenal and I dam near cried at the end.... the scary part about this game is I actually see this being a reality

[glaucoruzzetti]

The final nap with b-12... most depressing and heart breaking moment in videogames ever

[muji]

I don’t think B-12 was stuck there for millions of years. The house is still intact. So probably a hundred years at most.

[RealBradMiller]

You can tell so much love went into this game. Can't wait for more!

[NagiOki]

I'd love to see a continuation of the story. The ending gives me a feeling of when a pet out lives their owner. Stray stayed with the empty drone, mourning his lost owner/friend. I do hope this game is a proof of concept for Annapurna and they continue it.

[ronniejz]

So Momo is fine, Clem is fine, sentries are shut down (possibly by B12) and Zurks die to sunlight (the Doc "gun" is probably just a UV light?) and it even teased that B12 may be alive.

So what do you guys in the comments mean by "open ended"? All the loose ends are tied up except for the reunion of the cats, but that's ok, do you have ANY idea how smart that cat is!? If it can navigate out of a city it can navigate back home, lol.

Great game.

[sierraboy]

Ending was bittersweet. I was happy the cat made it outside but sad that B12, the the very last human(in a drone) couldn't make it.
I expected one final level where the cat runs around outside to find his family but it really ends like that.
It lefts such a big hole in my chest like... I need to know if they are reunited!!!

[Kewlausgirl]

One thing I really liked at the end of the game was where you got to see the entire city, where you had been, where the lower area was, the bacterial mutants, and the midtown resided.
And then the best part was how all the bacteria died from the sunlight.

And then the moral of this story: humanity could have survived by seeing if it's safe again to go outside... In the end they kept them all locked in containing the virus instead of declaring the city no longer safe and moving back up and out.

Gods this little game was so emotional at the end! Such a great game. I do hope there's a second one. But... If not, it is a great ending.

But I still like to think maybe some humans were able to upload themselves to the worker bots, and that's what started them evolving. Why else would we have seen that extra upload device... Even just as a story point for him to remember...?

[theduckscp]

I didn't think about the flickering computer screens at the end but now that I do I realize B/12's whole thing when he was controlling screens in the lower levels they flickered quite a bit along with the same audio.

[Staticzlol]

i wanted to find our 3 cat friends at the ending or atleast some kind of better ending but oh well