The adventurer Farren West dies while seeking the Lost Valley of Acrea but is resurrected later by a talking wolf named Boji.

After defeating bosses, players gain special abilities that they can use to customize their character through a skill tree.

[5][6] Despite some bugs and poor performance in the PlayStation version, Push Square recommended Stray Blade to players looking for an entry-level Soulslike game.

[2] IGN wrote that it "tries and fails" to break genre conventions of Soulslike games.

Though they enjoyed the colorful world and simplified combat, they felt it fell short of the quality of other Soulslike games.