Death Stranding

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2355 Ratings

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  1. MavihsLH
    Jul 27, 2020
    10
    Dont listen to these idiotic negative reviews about the game. Instead, go read the positive steam reviews by people who've played it for 20+ hours. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but these toxic haters trying to objectively justify why this game is a 0/10 has made me lose hope in humanity
  2. Windaller
    Jul 27, 2020
    6
    This game is a very mixed feeling. Yes, it is gorgeous, and the world multiplayer is something very new and carries a lot of nice social massage. But it is annoying to play for me. It is very slow-paced and a bit tricky to follow. My recommendation if you don't have a free 100 hours to spend just relaxing and walking in quite an empty open world, save your time, and watch an excellentThis game is a very mixed feeling. Yes, it is gorgeous, and the world multiplayer is something very new and carries a lot of nice social massage. But it is annoying to play for me. It is very slow-paced and a bit tricky to follow. My recommendation if you don't have a free 100 hours to spend just relaxing and walking in quite an empty open world, save your time, and watch an excellent compilation of story cinematics on YouTube. The story worth it, but I can see why Hideo should go to film now. And yes - Кодзима Гений!… Expand
  3. CrAzZyKiLLa
    Jul 27, 2020
    10
    Dont believe the 0's, Death Stranding is another masterpiece by Hideo Kojima, I enjoy story based cinematic games and this has one of the best. It is a slow game and not for those that expect full on action 100% of the time, this does have some action packed moments but also alot of walking. The gameplay is still good and well worth a 10/10.
  4. KarakACG
    Jul 27, 2020
    10
    Can't believe the trolls are back in full force, trying to downvote this game again after their review bombing of TLOUp2 has failed. Don't believe any of the negative reviews on here, it should be obvious from reading them than NONE of them has even played the game.

    This is game is truly something special and a wonder in today's world of generic open world games that all look and play    Can't believe the trolls are back in full force, trying to downvote this game again after their review bombing of TLOUp2 has failed. Don't believe any of the negative reviews on here, it should be obvious from reading them than NONE of them has even played the game.

    This is game is truly something special and a wonder in today's world of generic open world games that all look and play similarly. It's a breath of fresh air with beautiful graphics and a haunting story and amazing soundtrack. It might not be for everyone but don't get fooled by the fake hater reviews on here. MC really needs to do something about this soon!    … Expand
  5. TenchuuKhan
    Jul 27, 2020
    6
    How do you rate a game that has rather terrible gameplay in terms of the only challenge being that it's rather annoying to deliver packages? Literally, the only challenge is the endless sea of stones scattered throughout the map.

    However, the story or rather the mythology is well developed. The delivery though, the ending that explains everything literally takes 3 hours consisting of    How do you rate a game that has rather terrible gameplay in terms of the only challenge being that it's rather annoying to deliver packages? Literally, the only challenge is the endless sea of stones scattered throughout the map.

    However, the story or rather the mythology is well developed. The delivery though, the ending that explains everything literally takes 3 hours consisting of 2.5 hours of cutscenes.
    You literally just finished the game and it just won't stop ending...
    At least all questions are answered, no loose endings ala "ah you gotta have to interpret that yourself".

    The concept of the game isn't so bad - deliver packages, reconnect the people.
    The people just aren't interesting, so there's no point in doing side quests to get to know them better or anything.

    So my advise here really is: just do the main objectives, you'll do more deliveries than you wanted to anyway.
    And once you get a vehicle you'll hate the stones even more... the vehicle physics are so bad, you'd think this is some indie dev game. It's laughable.
    Do yourself a favor and, even though it's really hard, don't go near stones in the water - you'll get your vehicle stuck. Definitely.
    And the battery life on vehicles is... just astoundingly bad.

    The physics when carrying packages though makes absolute sense. How you gotta counter the weight by leaning left/right or stopping from falling is perfect.
    Climbing looks like ass though and is unpredictable.

    If they made driving in the least interesting, sort of like Mud Runner, it could have been a good game.
    This however, is a rich story packaged in a bad game.

    Combat is... absolutely laughable. No challenge here, bossfights are boring as fk.
    The only time it's challenging is when you gotta deliver a package for your last mission and you get a bossfight... and you fall over with the package and it gets broken - which it will... 2 hits/falling and it's a goner.

    I really just can't comprehend how you can put so much work into a game and ruin it with horrible gameplay where the core of it just isn't in any way satisfying. It's such a shame.

    Bottom line - can't recommend it.    … Expand
  6. XDDRUS
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    Is unplayble **** Crash every 20 minute. Dont buy it for full price! If you want to play it, wait for discounts.
  7. cakedust
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    The game is basically a glorified walking simulator with baked on "shooter" elements. The story of the game is a sad joke. The fan theories of what the game could be about was far more interesting than the banal drivel offered in this game. Why is this character called Die Hardman? Because he...died...hard. You'll get typical Hideo Kojima try hard lines like, "I'm Fragile but not thatThe game is basically a glorified walking simulator with baked on "shooter" elements. The story of the game is a sad joke. The fan theories of what the game could be about was far more interesting than the banal drivel offered in this game. Why is this character called Die Hardman? Because he...died...hard. You'll get typical Hideo Kojima try hard lines like, "I'm Fragile but not that fragile" without the bombastic and interesting cutscenes of the Metal Gear Solid games. The entire game is an exercise in futility.

    The story beats you over the head over and over again with stupid lines like, "We need to be connected" and other things that might have felt "cool" in Kojima's mind but falls flat in execution. Don't be surprised if you end up rolling your eyeballs so far inside your socket at the game's sad excuse for "twists" and "revelations". Only a fool would be unable to see where this predictable trash story is going to lead.

    The gameplay is basically a walking simulator (Amazon Prime delivery simulator) set in an open, empty world with nothing to do. You walk from point A to point B. Unlike what all the idiotic shills like to say, there is no "challenge" in traversing the dumb environment. There are falling rocks that phase through you without doing any damage whatsoever. This must be the "challenge" shills were talking about. The game's online basically has roads and ziplines everywhere so it's easy to travel to and fro without. The combat in this game revolves around throwing poo and pee grenades at dumb bullet sponge enemies. Enemy AI is stupid and can be easily tricked into loops where you can annihilate them.

    The music is basically licensed trash that you can listen to while trudging across America which looks a lot like Iceland than America. It is clear that Kojima spent the bulk of his money on the so called "star studded" losers from TV and film. All that money wasted, on characters you won't care for, on a game that seeks to insult your intelligence by repeating plot points and threads ad nauseum.

    The PC version of the game comes with Denuvo DRM so to hell with gamers willing to pay money for this trash. It also works only on Windows 10 and won't work on GPUs and CPUs that are technically able to run this unappealing wreck of a game. The game still has numerous crashes and bugs on certain hardware setups (check the Steam forums to know the full extent of how bad this game is).

    Death Stranding is quite possibly the worst game made by Hideo Kojima that fails in every aspect. It's no wonder that Sony did not offer him another deal to work with them. They've also stopped revealing sales numbers after the initial flow of articles that said the game sold 200k copies in Japan (total tally is 399k in Japan). Death Stranding was at the top of the list but quickly toppled over after a few days. To this day, Hideo Kojima insists his game is not a flop. If it is not a flop, why won't he reveal the sales numbers? Last Guardian sold around 1.4 million copies. Ghost of Tsushima sold 2.4 million copies in 3 days. Why is Kojima the only one who refuses to state how many copies his game sold? Please don't post me fake stats from Gamstat that says the game has 3 million players (there is something called Game Sharing on Playstation). Besides, Gamstat states on their website that the numbers are not official. What's the point then? Kojima insists his game is a success. I don't believe him. The game flopped big time. The Steam numbers for the game is pathetic as well.

    If you want to spend your time on a quality game, kindly play something else rather than this putrid pile of garbage called Death Stranding. The game spends more time blowing its c__k than in at least trying to engage the player in any meaningful form. A stupid game, made by a narcissistic pseudo intellectual game maker who is riding on the coat tails of past successful games. That's what you'll get with Death Stranding.

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  8. mokpp3
    Jul 27, 2020
    8
    Graphics 8/10
    Gameplay 8/10
    Animations 8/10
    Characters 8/10
    Story 8/10
    Good game
  9. kate_quinn
    Jul 27, 2020
    4
    It can be an interesting game for me, but without a good port, it's close to unplayable or at least destroying my experience. Huge problems with Xbox gamepads. I can't ride in vehicles for some reason with a gamepad plugged in. I see different combinations on screen than what game actually wants to press and it's not showing Playstation layout. It's showing Xbox buttons but different thanIt can be an interesting game for me, but without a good port, it's close to unplayable or at least destroying my experience. Huge problems with Xbox gamepads. I can't ride in vehicles for some reason with a gamepad plugged in. I see different combinations on screen than what game actually wants to press and it's not showing Playstation layout. It's showing Xbox buttons but different than what game wants me to press in that moment and I needed to google what to press. Cutscenes stuttering. Game is crashing (turning down some security wall through command fixed it... wtf?). And there are more bizzare problems. I waited few days and i was pretty sure that they will fix it with some quick update and I was surprised that they don't care about it. It's already two weeks after release and there was only one small update which fixed nothing for me. From update page it looks like they care more about people sharing screenshots than playing the game without problems. I don't know how they can put a year of work into this port and then don't care about it after its release. What should people think about them?… Expand
  10. donghai
    Jul 27, 2020
    10
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  11. Ch1ck3n
    Jul 26, 2020
    6
    Death stranding? More like death slipping all the time when I’m trying to climb a mountain! But to be honest it isn’t a bad game.
  12. Khang6152
    Jul 26, 2020
    10
    Great game you should great,i only have a sentence for this game “you have to walk for other people run”
  13. ramob
    Jul 26, 2020
    10
    I’ve never played any game from Kojima, and the buzz about the release made me very curious. I wasn’t disappointed: the game is unique. You listened before, and it’s true, you’ll love it or hate it.
  14. Klenerschluchti
    Jul 26, 2020
    8
    Well where do I even start with this?

    The game is definitely something unique and it'll take you on quite the journey. It's a pretty lengthy game that takes place in a big rich world filled with all kinds of details and hazards, It does a great job at building an emotional connection to the main character and his companions and sometimes even a few villains but and that's a big but,    Well where do I even start with this?

    The game is definitely something unique and it'll take you on quite the journey.
    It's a pretty lengthy game that takes place in a big rich world filled with all kinds of details and hazards,
    It does a great job at building an emotional connection to the main character and his companions and sometimes even a few villains but and that's a big but, there are parts of the game that do drag on at times, if you are prone to getting bored easily then this might not be the game for you, if on the other hand you enjoy a well crafted world with an interesting deep twisted complicated story that's gradually taught to the player then I can't recommend this game enough.

    A word of warning, if you are like me and wanna do the side objectives as in getting all preppers on 5 stars then I can only urge you to think about for a good while, there ain't a massive payoff to it and it damn well nearly drove me insane at times, I recommend only doing so if you are really determined and wanna see every little bit of content in the game.    … Expand
  15. Curaga13
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Gorgeous looking graphics....awesome story...very original and fun! "Keep on keeping up" Kojima!
  16. VILATTI
    Jul 26, 2020
    10
    Best game every. Very interesting plot, characters and lor of the game.
    everyone buy it and enjoy!
  17. aqerty69
    Jul 26, 2020
    3
    Impossible to understand what the player shoud do. Just a waste of time and money. No way to understand what is meaning of the game.
  18. joethetimelrod
    Jul 26, 2020
    10
    After its first review bombing was a failure, the lynch mob is at it again to attack Death Stranding's exceptionally optimized PC port. Take it from me: the steam reviews are what you should be looking at here.
  19. Censuvius
    Jul 26, 2020
    10
    It's a masterpiece. Finally something new. The story is great, the art is awesome, I love everything about it. I did have to deal with some crashes though.. I can agree that this game isn't for everyone, but people rating it 0 probably think fortnite has a rich story.
  20. Gemesi92
    Jul 25, 2020
    4
    Finished in 40 hours...i want that hours back. Every votes over the 6 it's for kojima name, not for the game.
  21. Wan93
    Jul 25, 2020
    0
    I'm gladly play Last of Us 2 for a second time rather that this "masterpiece",lol thats how they tag this type of game genre on steamstore,strand type game
  22. ERRORandBSOD
    Jul 25, 2020
    10
    One of the best game i played ever and i played them a lot for 25 years. The story is just mind breaking as nearly always for Hideo Kojima
  23. GioRgip
    Jul 25, 2020
    8
    Потрясающая игра сюжет крышечносный, да игра не для всех, но по моим эмоциям 10/10, после концовки козимаза гений. Сюжет и лор лучший что я видел
  24. pcbflare
    Jul 25, 2020
    9
    Death Stranding is not a game for everyone. A cynical person could say, that Hideo Kojima looked at the most tedious fetch quests from various openworld RPGs, at the most boring aspects of ingame inventory management, and built an entire game around that. A cynical person would be right, in a way. But that's not all this game is. Death Stranding is a game about challenging deliveries ofDeath Stranding is not a game for everyone. A cynical person could say, that Hideo Kojima looked at the most tedious fetch quests from various openworld RPGs, at the most boring aspects of ingame inventory management, and built an entire game around that. A cynical person would be right, in a way. But that's not all this game is. Death Stranding is a game about challenging deliveries of various packages through desolate postapocalyptic landscape. But here's the thing. In Death Stranding, it's not boring. At least if you're invested and interested in the world. True, to an action game fan that just needs a quick shoot'em fix, this might be boring. But a thinking sci-fi fan will get sucked in fast. The worldbuilding and atmosphere is fantastic, and trying to find out more and more about what the hell happened to the world keeps you going. The key thing here is - it's slow. It's deliberately slow. It wants you to pause and think. I hated fetch quests in RPGs like Elder Scrolls or Fallout. But here, it's something entirely different. The landscape itself is your enemy. The weather is too. There are groups of NPCs who try to steal your packages, there are everpresent ghostly BTs that terrorize areas wasted by timefall. So yeah, you're delivering packages, but it's not "just" delivering packages. You're constantly struggling with enormous load on your back, with the unforgiving terrain, with timefall and exposure, with enemies. It's a struggle and it feels great to finally deliver a package and get to safety after a challenging run. While you're running around the ruined landscape, you're connecting isolated pockets of people who somehow survived the apocalypse, and now struggle to carry on. The point is, that what would be tedious and annoying in any other game is challenging and interesting here. This game is different, yes, but in a good way. There's so much more to it than meets the eye. It is a mix of several genres (stealth, action, horror), but survival is probably the most prominent one. The production is fantastic. It feels like you're watching some kind of postapo movie most of the time. There are vibes from Stalker, Thing, Aliens, or maybe more modern movies like Oblivion, Annihilation or Edge of Tomorrow. As always in Hideo Kojima's games, there are tons of mails and additional information you can read, and i recommend everyone to not skip through these materials. This is a game for a thinking person, you have to take it slow, you cannot just jump in, play for 30min and quit. It doesn't work that way. There are truly revolutionary ideas like the invisible enemies, player character's death turned into a gameplay mechanism, weather constantly eroding player-built structures and the ability to indirectly help each other, there's just too much to unpack, to describe, but this little review window is not a proper place to do it. I wholly recommend this game to people who often think about the life, universe and everything :-), who think about how this civilization might end, how it somehow feels downright weird that it hasn't happened yet, about the polarization in todays society, and how internet brought us together and isolated us at the same time. I recommend this game to people who like walking simulators, who like survival and crafting games, who like openworld games for the freedom of being able to go anywhere you want, who like sci-fi and postapocalyptic themes. I don't recommend this game to people who just "collect games", who download a game, and finish it in shortest time possible to move to another title. I don't recommend this game to action game fans, or to casual players. I would give it 10/10, but there are few things that could be better. Mainly, the game has absolutely terrible vehicle physics, and the abundance of multiplayer icons everywhere ruins the beautiful landscape views and therefore the atmosphere. I'd welcome a way to somehow limit the amount of multiplayer icons you see in an area. Also, 505 games really screwed-up the port, and at a time of writing this, there are pretty bad issues. There's a lot of extreme stuttering when loading new areas, and constant crashes to desktop, but afaik this isn't Kojima production's fault, so i'm not counting that towards the final score.… Expand
  25. Mansel
    Jul 25, 2020
    10
    Can't. Stop. Playing. Easily best game of 2020.

    Gorgeous graphics. Captivating storyline. Addictive gameplay (but addictive like water, or food, not crack). Superb soundtrack. A (semi)unique online experience - think Dark Souls. All in all, highly recommended. Do not listen to negative reviews of people, who haven't even played the game. saying its Amazon Delivery Simulator 2020,    Can't. Stop. Playing. Easily best game of 2020.

    Gorgeous graphics.
    Captivating storyline.
    Addictive gameplay (but addictive like water, or food, not crack).
    Superb soundtrack.
    A (semi)unique online experience - think Dark Souls.

    All in all, highly recommended. Do not listen to negative reviews of people, who haven't even played the game. saying its Amazon Delivery Simulator 2020,

    Also, do not watch any videos. Don't spoil it for yourself.    … Expand
  26. O0bscure
    Jul 25, 2020
    10
    It's been a great journey , it's different ...
    I've never played anything that encourages me to go out of my way to help other players get through the game .
    And the more you help people the easier it gets for them , and in return for you!

    The story is amaxing , I really loved it. This game is definitely gonna stick with me for a while
  27. Clive_cowan
    Jul 25, 2020
    6
    The game is Different and original. With a great story. Not my usual kind of game but a good game all round.
  28. basimwwe
    Jul 24, 2020
    10
    Ar اللعبة سلسة وممتازة والقصة ماهى الكل الجيم بلي ممتاز وتحتاج تعاون من جميع الاعبين فى الأشياء المشتركة مثل البناء
  29. Tavo1994
    Jul 24, 2020
    0
    I rather work for Amazon delivering packages. It would be more fun than this crappy game
  30. Hunchback
    Jul 24, 2020
    9
    A vert good game for me. A original ans fresh expérience... The best felling of the landscape with Zelda Botw ! I am Sam and I climb the mountain like a mountaineer !!
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#16 Best PC Game of 2020
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#11 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 54 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 54
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 54
  3. Negative: 0 out of 54
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    70
    I approached Death Stranding twice. I spent a couple of hours with the PS4 edition and was fascinated with it. I kinda wish I stopped at that and let the game remain a mystery to me rather than complete it later on PC and be disappointed. There are moments when Death Stranding eludes the traditional 1-10 rating system. There are moments when it sets new standards and becomes a truly special experience. But those are just moments scattered throughout tedious gameplay. Still, it is in my opinion one of those games you simply need to play. [10/2020, p.44]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Sep 20, 2020
    67
    Death Stranding is asking you to find variety in a daily rut, cooperation possibilities for a character who has fear of contact, scientific explanations in clear-cut mysticism. Today, you’re annoyed that the story doesn’t move forward, and you have to trek into the same ghost-infested area as before, but tomorrow you’ll gladly spend a few hours hauling resources for a new highway and feeling good about it. This source of joy is very weird and defies explanation.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    90
    Death Stranding on PC is the best way to experience this journey. Game is much more than a walking Sim, it mixes and matches a ton of brilliant new ideas and game mechanics. It is bursting with atmosphere, and the overall quality of the production and presentation is fantastic. Other than minor issues and some non-consistent storytelling, Death Stranding shows us that boundaries can be moved in the today gaming world.
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