Midtown Looks Awesome in Stray (RX 5600 XT) (1440p High)
13Midtown. Now this is what I'm talking about! Lots of neon signs and wet streets to reflect them. Glorious! Running at native 1440p (upscaled to 4k) on High. There is no Ultra in this game, high is the highest setting.
Beat the game in about 6.5h (I knew it wouldn't be super long) but it holds your attention the whole way through. Not to mention for such a small developer to craft this much detail into a world. The fact everything has been perfectly placed exactly where you want to see it. Like they wanted you get up close with everything so every detail had to be perfect. The world was just so perfectly crafted as was the story. The gameplay is mostly exploring, talking to characters and finding items to trade or use in the correct circumstance. But there's a little bit of action. You get a kind of powerful UV flashlight that kills the face hugger type enemies that will swarm you. Typically you can outrun them or shake them off if one or two grab on to you. But too many grab you and they'll take you down. The flashlight kills them if you point it at them but it overheats VERY fast and so can only be used in short bursts. When if overheats you have to wait for it to cool back down before you can use it again. There's also a lot of MGS style stealth segments where you have to avoid being detected by the police drones. They will one shot kill you if they see you! That said the game is not really an action game and that's fine. I think most of you would have expected this. What action there is though is fun and usually over with quickly as you proceed back to traversing to your goal. The game was not a full price game either ($36 CAD at launch on Steam) so it was somewhat expected that it wasn't going to be a 20+ hour game or anything. Again, the story, pace and world/atmosphere is superb.