Jul 26, 2022 12:00:00

Succeeded in decoding the world language of the popular cat game 'Stray'

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Stray , where you become a cat and explore the cyberpunk world, Stray's world-specific language appears, and game media Half-Glass Gaming is breaking this language right away.

I Completely Decoded Stray's Code Language; Here's a Guide to Deciphering It – Half-Glass Gaming
https://halfglassgaming.com/2022/07/i-completely-decoded-strays-code-language-heres-a-guide-to-deciphering-it/

Stray's language has already been deciphered | Eurogamer.net
https://www.eurogamer.net/strays-language-has-already-been-deciphered

The language of Stray's world is encrypted using substitution cipher , and this mysterious character makes the game world look more mysterious and mysterious. Substitution cipher is to encrypt the text by exchanging each character or symbol in the text with a different symbol, and it is relatively necessary to know which character each character corresponds to in reality. It can be easily decrypted.

Half-Glass Gaming writer Josh Wirtanen explained that he succeeded in this decoding work immediately, based on the characters displayed on the chapter title screen of the game. Below is a table showing which alphabets the languages of the Stray world correspond to. There are two variations of 'P', and 'E' seems to have a version in which the length of the horizontal lines that make up the character is even at the top and bottom.

If you read the characters that appear in the game using this decoding table, it will be as follows.

'EATHER: In a VIP ticket for If you want to live in clean city just'

The word 'Droids News' is written in the headline of the newspaper.

'Best Bag' for a bag hung on the wall

The vending machine has 'Raffle prizes: Only this summer Special price — Blue Twelve'

The sign says 'VANTED: OIFIUG VTPM', and Mr. Wirtanen doesn't understand the meaning of 'OIFIUG VTPM'.

The following signboard cannot be deciphered using the deciphering table created by Mr. Wirtanen, but if you rotate the signboard 180 degrees, you can see that it says 'SHOP'.

In addition, it seems that there are cases where the characters displayed on the chapter title screen of the game and the handwritten characters appearing in the game are slightly different, and the characters are arranged by rotating 180 degrees or 90 degrees. There seems to be a case. However, the handwritten characters in the game are translated as they are in the game, so you can understand the meaning without Mr. Wirtanen's decoding table.