How to Port Forward Stray in Your Router

Stray is a Third-Person and Adventure game published by Annapurna Interactive released in 2022.

Stray has the following styles of play.

• Third person games have the game camera behind the players shoulder. You generally see the main characters back, shoulders, and head. Popular games that are in the 3rd person are Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed, and Gears of War.
• An adventure game is where the player is usually the protagonist and plays through an evolving story. The storyline is the driving part of an adventure game.

When you are playing Stray you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and sometimes even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

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Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• The IP address of your router.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

The easiest way to locate your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

• Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
• Locate your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the applicable box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the matching boxes in your router.
• Sometimes you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The ports that need to be forwarded for Stray are as follows:

Stray - Steam

• TCP: 27015, 27036
• UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

Stray - Playstation 4

• TCP: 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Stray - Playstation 5

• TCP: 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Stray - Xbox One

• TCP: 3074
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

Stray - Xbox Series X

• TCP: 3074
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

We have guides that are custom tailored for Stray that will show you the specific incoming ports.

• Stray - Steam
• Stray - Playstation 4
• Stray - Playstation 5
• Stray - Xbox One
• Stray - Xbox Series X

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want to learn how to create more port forwards? Check out our list of games and applications.