The exact date that Stray takes place

This is great, the fact that the day matches up with the moon phase makes me hope the devs did this on purpose when deciding when Stray takes place.

These are absolutely mind-blowing levels of detail and research. I'm personally on Team Moon, only because we have no way of knowing if the TV broadcasts are current, and going by the moon puts us more in the future. I don't think it's a huge leap to think that broadcasts in the slums might just be old rebroadcasts of prior episodes. There may not even be a point to updated weather reports anymore. Thanks for putting in this work!

My 11 year old cat died literally the morning this game came out and I downloaded it! I still can't believe it. I woke up to play it and to find out my cat had been apparently stung by a scorpion during night (in my opinion, as I had just found one days before). She got paralysed, I won't even explain because I will start to cry... She appeared under a bed... paralysed... she couldn't breath well... her mouth went purple... the vets couldn't do anything... she died that morning in the veterinary. It is one of the saddest days of my entire life! I couldn't play the game for like a month, and when I did, I never finished it. Now I'm trying to finish it, one year later.

So many people took that huge number on the wall as a literal amount of days, but it being a unix timestamp makes so much sense, of course the Companions would use the MAIN way that time is calculated on a computer.

This video is just a prime example of how rich and well made stray's world is that you can take what should be just basic set dressing and figure out the exact day the events of the game take place without it being obviously stated by any character

Thanks for letting me do the music for this video! Such a fun one. Also: Team Moon all the way. In the weather report the ceiling is open and it says it’s going to rain. Why would they care if it was raining while the city was closed? I will just ignore the fact that it was raining the night before when Stray is outside…

My brother found your video on Stray's true ending, and we both fell in love with your style of editing. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers! Well, you got one right now. ;)

Stray really stuck with me. I cried at the end. It was a beautiful, engaging game, and the story was so dark but meaningful! It’s up there with my favorite games of all time, none of which got me on an emotional level! I keep looking for games that have a similar story or feel. I’m still chasing that feeling. Games I’ve enjoyed that feel similar are portal 2, control, Witcher 3, horizon series, outer worlds, journey to a savage planet- I know the suggestions are all over the place because I’m trying to think of games that both capture engaging storylines, likable characters, colorful worlds, high emotional stakes and/or components of a puzzle structure… any further suggestions are welcome.

The amount of detail devs put in the game is amazing but the fact that you put that much effort in videos is even more amazing.

Something you didn't mention is the clocks. All of the clock faces in Stray have 16 hours rather than 12. If something happened to the earth that caused the rotational speed to change, then the moon phases would also be different than the one we know right now, making the "team moon's" claim no longer relevant.

I imagined October 11 was the last day humans kept track of time, seeing as these calendars are found in the Dead City too. It subsequently has been hundreds of years since October 11. Side note: October 11 is "National Coming Out Day" in the US and the "International Day of the Girl Child" around the world

Probably team moon because the weather channel could be a replay or a recording. Moon seems a little more likely to me, but unless we get canon confirmation, you can totally be on the tv team and I'll support that :)

I think Oct 11 on the calendar is not correct because this calendar is outside the safe zoom of Robot. I think that is the last day where human lived or died during the pandemic so they could not tear off this calendar anymore. So we need to star with September.

i just finished stray yesterday and ive been avoiding spoilers from reddit, youtube, and twitter ever since. now that i finished the game im very disappointed because it was such a cliff hanger and ive been searching for videos explaining the game ending. ive watched your 2 minute video as well, the one where you describe the true ending and revealing where stray's home is. im happy that stray got an ending (although is most likely a theory) where they got reunited with their cat friends. and oh, im a team moon. because who knows, the weather report could have been just a replay airing since forever and the moon is much more accurate imo. thank you for this video, you got another subscriber.

I’d watch this over Game Theory anyday. I commend this style of editing it really takes the viewers on a journey. It felt like you held our hand and took us on a research journey from your set up to revelation.

Moon because the weather report probably isn't accurately dated because who would be doing a weather report in a giant dome?

I love when the community comes together to solve gaming mysteries :) I may not be able to contribute much, but still fun to "discover" everything with you

As if I couldn’t have loved the game enough already, this just takes it to another level.

This is showing a true masterpiece in gamng. its not only a very briliant game, it also has so many to discover and find out. im glad such game developers still exist. thanks for this game!

Beginning of the video: Stray is in the not so distant future when a lot of things from our current life still exists End of video: Stray takes place over 1000 years into the future...