Strayhas now been played by millions of people all over the world, at least according to some recently released data from Sony. This follows on the heels of being nominated forthe main prize at the 2022 Game Awardsand winning both the Best Indie and Best Debut Indie categories.
As is often the case these days, exact sales figures forStrayare not publically available, though there is plenty of evidence that points to the game being commercially successful. Shortly after the game’s launch,Straybroke publisher Annapurna Interactive’s record for concurrent players on Steam. Now, thanks to this year’s PlayStation Wrap-Up, it’s possible to get an even better idea of just how many people have played the game.
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For those unaware,the PlayStation Wrap-Upallows players to see stats relating to all of the games that they played this year. It also provides miscellaneous information about some of the year’s biggest titles, which, in the 2022 edition, includesStray. According to the accompanying infographic in the PS Plus section of the site, 635 thousand basketballs have been dunked in-game, which points to a total player count in the millions.
Dunking a basketball inStrayis somewhat significant, as doing so will unlock one of the game’s many trophies. According to the PlayStation app, only 14.2% of players haveunlocked the Boom Chat Kalaka trophy inStray. Combining these two pieces of information reveals that as many as 4,471,831 have playedStrayon PlayStation, making it one of the most-played indie games of the past few years.
This isn’t the first time that one of Sony’s end-of-year initiatives has allowed people to work out player counts for PlayStation games. Four years ago, Sony launched My PS4 Life, which allowed players to see their rarest trophy and the exact number of people who had unlocked it. By cross-referencing this number with the percentage of people who had unlocked the trophy, players could work out just how many people had played the game. This led to the creation of sites like Gamstat, which provided accurate player counts for pretty much every PS4 game released before December 2018.
Strayis available on PS4, PS5, and PC.
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