Death Stranding
Death Stranding is an action game set in a post-apocalyptic United States. Players control Sam Porter Bridges, a courier tasked with reconnecting isolated cities via a communication network while delivering…
Death Stranding is an adventure developed by Kojima Productions, released 8 November 2019 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 60.4 hrs to finish.
What Death Stranding is
Death Stranding is an adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2019. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Decima.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time. With spectral creatures plaguing the landscape, and humanity on the verge of a mass extinction, it’s up to Sam to journey across the ravaged continent and save mankind from impending annihilation. What is the mystery of the Death Stranding? What will Sam discover on the road ahead? An unprecedented gameplay experience holds these answers and more.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 63 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Death Stranding series
Death Stranding is the first of 4 entries we hold in the Death Stranding series. The next entry was Death Stranding: Director's Cut in 2021. Its critic score of 84 is 5 points below the series average of 89. The highest-rated entry is Death Stranding 2: On the Beach at 92.
How it was received
Death Stranding holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 921 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 60.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 124.9 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 80GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Death Stranding launched on 8 November 2019, within three weeks of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal and Luigi's Mansion 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal, Luigi's Mansion 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Death Stranding yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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