Feline adventure game Stray has made a big difference to real-life cats

Screenshot from Stray, the game about a lost cat
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The best feline adventure of 2022, Stray, has made a real difference in animal shelters.

As reported by (thanks, ), Stray has been such a hit with cat fans that it's inspired a number of fundraising activities. As explained in the original rep👍ort, Stray has helped to raise thousands of dollars for various charities that all help real-life stray cats and other animals. 

Using the feline-centric game to bring awareness to cat-related issues was apparently a "no-brainer" according to Annapurna Interactive's Jeff Legaspi, who was interviewed in the report. In Stray, players take control of a little orange tabby who must travel through a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by only animals and robots. Part of Stray's gameౠplay requires players to act like a cat by meowing, knocking things off of tables, scratching at scraps of carpet, and more. 

PBS also spoke to a number of animal charity representatives for its Stray coverage, including the marketingꦇ specialist at the Nebraska Humane Society, Brendan Gepson. Discussing the organization's marketing strategy from last year - which saw the charity giving away codes for Stray in exchange for $5 donations - Gepson described the campaign as "very successful," after it raised around $8,000 for the charity.

Annapurna Interactive also worked with streamers (one of which managed to raise $1,500 with their Stray content alone) and sponsored the Stray Cat Relief Fund's 5K walkathon last year - which went on to raise $6,500 for the cats in its care. "Having a stray cat be the star of a video game is just amazing," Debbie Distanisloa of Stray Cat Relief Fund said in the same report, "we're really hoping it can shed more empathy in the co🤪mmunity for t💝he stray cat community." 

Can't get enough of Stray's adorable protagonist? Take a look at our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best cat games for ideas on what to play next. 

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