Stray always seemed like a game that started and stopped with the pitch of "you play as a cat!" and that appealed to a certain group of people who really like cats but then it's like how do you make that interesting and the answer always came back to "but you play as a cat!" 

This is based solely on second hand information but literally no one I've talked to who has played it has been able to sell me on it without going "well I like cats and you play as a cat!"