{"id":660959,"date":"2026-04-01T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/stray-mod-lets-you-play-as-americas-laziest-cat-garfield"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:37:12","slug":"stray-mod-lets-you-play-as-americas-laziest-cat-garfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/stray-mod-lets-you-play-as-americas-laziest-cat-garfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray mod lets you play as America&#8217;s laziest cat, Garfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stray-mod-lets-you-play-as-americas-laziest-cat-garfield.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Over a week ago, if you&#8217;d of mentioned ginger cats to me, my first thought would&#8217;ve been Garfield. Now, however, my first thought is of a very different, unnamed ginger kitty from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/stray\">Stray<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean Garfield doesn&#8217;t still hold a special place in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>One modder, who clearly has similar interests, has made it so that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/stray\/mods\/58\">Garfield finds himself astray<\/a> in the unknown world of The Slums, Midtown, and beyond. We&#8217;ve seen keen modders flock to Annapurna&#8217;s most successful launch and turn the protagonist of Stray into a dog, and even into CJ from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Obviously, Garfield is perhaps the most fitting of all the character mods we&#8217;ve seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re one of the many players that are playing Stray via PC, you can also play as Garfield to your heart&#8217;s content. Modder, Chris Robino, has made the mod publicly available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/stray\/mods\/58\">Nexus Mods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/stray-mod-lets-you-play-as-americas-laziest-cat-garfield\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/stray-mod-lets-you-play-as-americas-laziest-cat-garfield\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a week ago, if you&#8217;d of mentioned ginger cats to me, my first thought would&#8217;ve been Garfield. Now, however, my first thought is of a very different, unnamed ginger kitty from Stray, but that doesn&#8217;t mean Garfield doesn&#8217;t still hold a special place in my heart. One modder, who clearly has similar interests, has made it so that Garfield finds himself astray in the unknown world of The Slums, Midtown, and beyond. We&#8217;ve seen keen modders flock to Annapurna&#8217;s most successful launch and turn the protagonist of Stray into a dog, and even into CJ from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Obviously, Garfield is perhaps the most fitting of all the character mods we&#8217;ve seen so far. 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