stray’s-secret-language-revealed,-how-to-translate-the-cryptic-text

Unless you have been dwelling beneath a rock you’re doubtless conscious of Stray, te game where you play as a stray cat in a dystopian future uncovering the secrets and techniques of the world as you discover it. The game has a metacritic rating of 84, which is impressively excessive for a model new title.

Developed by AnnaPurna Interactive, and BlueTwelve, you are taking management of an cute little cat that finds itself separated from different feline buddies. As you advance by way of the game you discover signage and language that every one appears fairly cryptic and is unquestionably tough for any human to learn, not to mention a bit of kitty.

Well, because of the endurance of Half Glass Gaming author, Josh Wirtanen, we now have a full translation of that cryptic language, and it’s surprisingly easy. Or at the least, one of many key languages utilized all through the title. There is another language representations within the game, however these appear to principally be inventive expression that do not essentially have a direct translation.

Screenshot from Stray Showing Signs with Cryptic Text

“How did I manage to do this?” Writes Josh, “Well, I started with the chapter titles, and I began decoding those… For example, the chapter subtitled “The Slums” is actually called ‘Home: Slums Part One’.”

He even included a nifty little translation key, however does level out that there are a number of character variations for some letters.

Cipher for Stray Cryptic Text

According to SteamDB Stray reached a peak of virtually 63,000 customers on the day it was launched, nonetheless it nonetheless holds peaks of greater than 20,000 virtually every day since its launch. This additionally doesn’t take into account the total image, as Stray can be out there for PlayStation 4 and 5.

Not solely has Stray executed extraordinarily nicely since its launch, it already has a modding and customization scene popping up for it. A number of days in the past we identified that the title has a nifty little Happy Puppy Mod. There’s a number of enjoyable mods, most of which customise your character mannequin, like this one which adjustments you into the 3D animated model of Garfield. Maybe we’ll see a full textual content translation mod so we cannot should manually decipher the textual content sooner or later.