Game

Death Stranding

2019 · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure

85IGDB player score
920 ratings

Previously Take

920 ratings at an 85 clip. Solid numbers for a solid game. A survival game where the science fiction setting wants you dead and the fun is proving it wrong. Best experienced alone, preferably with nowhere to be.

Awards & honors

The Game Awards 2019

Best Game Direction — Winner

The Game Awards 2019

Game of the Year — Nominee

About this game

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 essential cargo. The gameplay blends traversal, resource management, and narrative elements, with a focus on social connectivity through asynchronous multiplayer. It is known for its unique mechanics, atmospheric world, and philosophical themes.

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.