Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley details the new video game "Stray," which allows users to wander the streets as a stray cat.

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- Welcome back. The markets and, quite frankly, the planet are on fire today. But, well, it's Twitter that can't contend with a cat, a virtual cat. In fact, the top trending topic on social media most of the day is a video game called "Stray." It is about, yes, a stray cat. Tech reporter Dan Howley is here with us. He's a cat lover as well. Dan, I thought this was a joke when I saw it trending on Twitter. Is it a real video game?

DAN HOWLEY: It is a real video game. Here's my own little stray right here. This is Buddy, and--

SEANA SMITH: Hi, Buddy.

DAN HOWLEY: --he's a garbage cat. He's going to take off.

SEANA SMITH: He's a cutie.

DAN HOWLEY: He is, yes. But "Stray" is a new game for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Steam. Basically, that means on PCs. And you really do play the game as a cat. You can do everything from knead or scratch on carpets, which Buddy does, and explore a "Cyberpunk"-inspired world, kind of dystopian "Cyberpunk," interact with different robots, things along those lines.

But you are not a super brain cat or anything along those lines. You are a literal cat, and there is an actual meow button, a dedicated meow button, for this video game. And people are loving it. They say the story is amazing. Obviously, you can play as a cat. The internet is for cats. And so that's really why this game is taking off, and it's great to see. When it was first announced a while back, people were ecstatic. And now that it's actually out, people seem to be loving it.

SEANA SMITH: People are loving it. It's one of the top trends on Twitter. Rachelle, what do you think? Are you going to give it a go?

RACHELLE AKUFFO: I would absolutely give this a go. It's like sort of living vicariously, you know, being a bit naughty, knocking things over. I love it. I think this is fantastic.