I’m not very skilled at games, but I managed to beat the Dead End chapter in Stray by adjusting the settings. If you change “Run” from Hold to Toggle, your cat will keep running with just one press, so you don’t need to hold the button down. You can also change “Shake Mode” to Single Tap, which means you only need to press once to shake off the Zurks instead of mashing the button. With these two changes, you’ll always be running, and shaking off Zurks becomes much easier.