Stray overtakes God of War to become the best user-rated Steam game of 2022

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Stray has overtaken God of War to become the best user-rated Steam game of 2022.

As spotted by VGC, Steam review collection site Steam250 - which gives games a score based on how many positive reviews they’ve received in conjunction with how many players - has awarded Stray a score of 8.61, meaning out of 42,665 reviews, 98% are positive. Despite God of War having more reviews overall, Stray has received just enough positive ones to push Sony Santa Monica’s PC port off the top spot. 

This ranking has gained Stray 49th place on the best Steam games of all time list on Steam250, trailing behind the likes of Celeste, Portal 2, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Hades, and 43 other PC titles. But who knows, if Stray continues this upward trajectory, maybe it will increase its overall ranking one day. After all, it managed to gain 60,000 concurrent players just under an hour after release, making it Annapurna’s biggest PC launch. 

As for God of War, unless you’ve been living under a rock – a Ragnarok, if you will – for the past several months, you’ll already be well aware that we’re getting a sequel to the 2018 title later this year. God of War Ragnarok is due to release on November 9, 2022, but this won’t affect the Steam250 rankings as, at the moment, the highly anticipated sequel is only said to be releasing for PS4 and PS5 and not PC. This could always go on to change at a later date, though. 

Wondering if Stray will ever release on other platforms? Find out if you’ll ever be able to play Stray on Xbox. 

Hope Bellingham
Hope Bellingham
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After studying Film Studies and Creative Writing at university, I was lucky enough to land a job as an intern at Player Two PR where I helped to release a number of indie titles. I then got even luckier when I became a Trainee News Writer at GamesRadar+ before being promoted to a fully-fledged News Writer after a year and a half of training.  My expertise lies in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, cozy indies, and The Last of Us, but especially in the Kingdom Hearts series. I'm also known to write about the odd Korean drama for the Entertainment team every now and then.