The launch of Stray on Steam turned out to be a record for Annapurna Interactive — the game about the cat attracted a large audience

The launch of the game Stray about the stray cat was successful — the first data shows that it is the largest premiere of the company Annapurna Interactive on a PC on Steam.

At the start on the evening of July 19, Stray had nearly 63,000 simultaneous players on the Valve pitch, almost eight times the publisher's previous record.

Peak values of other releases of Annapurna Interactive by the number of simultaneous players:12 Minutes — 8,021Outer Wilds — 7,936Neon White — 3,277Journey — 1,757Stray was released at the beginning of the working week, so its figures may still grow by the weekend, taking into account the maximum positive feedback of the first buyers, good ratings in the press and hype in social networks.

Now players are massively posting a video of the reaction of their pet cats and cats to the main character of Stray, thereby drawing additional attention to the novelty.

Even the creator of The Last of Us Neil Drakmann noted the high quality of the game. Stray was released on PC, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.