Death Stranding

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2355 Ratings

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  1. TwiTu
    May 11, 2021
    2
    Great graphics (even though the landscape looks very bland), awesome animations, very good sound, superb actors.
    Thats it.
    The story is extremely weird and makes no sense. You dont get much explained either. You are a postman and considered a hero, even though people can just send stuff to each other via a grid. You just have to deliver lost stuff you randomly find (spawns out of    Great graphics (even though the landscape looks very bland), awesome animations, very good sound, superb actors.
    Thats it.
    The story is extremely weird and makes no sense. You dont get much explained either.
    You are a postman and considered a hero, even though people can just send stuff to each other via a grid. You just have to deliver lost stuff you randomly find (spawns out of nowhere all the time) or special items that cant be send via that grid. They always say that there are many like you, but you never see any, only the crap they leave behind.
    What do you get for your deliveries? Likes. Yes. Likes. just like on Facebook.
    The USA, where this game plays, also shrunk (while keeping the same shape). Its only a few dozen miles wide now and there is no sign of a former civilization, except some futuristic buildings and rarely a road or car wreck....

    The dialogues and characters are typical for a Japanese game, including their cringy names. Just awkward for everyone non-Japanese.
    The cutscenes are too many and most dont add much to the story, yet they are done very well.
    The controls are rage inducing. Always having to balance your body is just annoying after the first 3 hours. It feels like the devs just tried to make the game slower with that. The bike and other vehicles are no better. At first I thought I am missing a button when I drove the bike, because it was soooo slow (much slower than in the intro). And even when I hit the boost its not much faster. It also gets stuck everywhere and the jump sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. Its random.
    Delivery missions (thats pretty much all you do) get extremely repetitive very quickly as well. Avoiding BTs (having to watch the same animation over and over again, when they are detected) is also just annoying to no end. Also you can pretty much predict where their areas are located every time - they always block your way. Always. Its no challenge. Just annoying, most likely also to make the game slower. And then to top it off you also have to watch for a baby (and have to press about 5 different buttons just to soothe it) that keeps crying all the time if things get a little tougher. Again no challenge, just annoying.
    Your allies just hide in their bunkers. Most of the time you only see their holograms. They never even help you with a squad against those pesky "postmen gone bad", not even with a proper weapon!
    I never got real weapons, aside from some clunky grenades that only damage one type of enemy, while youre pretty much effed against other enemies and have to stealth around them and use gadgets to fool them.
    You always have to carry a pile of extra gear to survive, which massively limits what you can pick up on your way or how fast you can go.
    It still made me play for about 11 hours, but then I had enough. Its just too repetitive and annoying and the story just gets weirder and weirder and so doesnt keep you interested at all - no epic feeling at all, no interesting characters either.
    Oh yeah, and it also features ads and product placement (also in a very weird and immersion-breaking manner).
    No idea at all how this is so popular.

    TL;DR:
    Very weird and annoying postman walking simulator in a very weird post apocalyptic world, where postmen are the ultimate heroes and face unchallenging, very simple and very annoying delivery missions for likes as a reward. It looks very good, but its gameplay is some of the worst and idiotic console crap Ive ever seen.    … Expand
  2. ozzless
    May 3, 2021
    2
    Very hard to even write the review about this "game".
    It is extremely boring and slow. You are told like 12-15 times in the beginning that this is a Hideo Kojima game, during the first 15 minutes of the opening cutscene, as if you could forget that. As a typical modern console game, the actual gameplay is about 5% of the game, all the rest is watching endless and really slow cutscenes.    Very hard to even write the review about this "game".
    It is extremely boring and slow. You are told like 12-15 times in the beginning that this is a Hideo Kojima game, during the first 15 minutes of the opening cutscene, as if you could forget that. As a typical modern console game, the actual gameplay is about 5% of the game, all the rest is watching endless and really slow cutscenes. When you actually get a few seconds of gameplay to break your sleep - it's a kind of 'balance the ball' mini game combined with 'uber eats' courier simulator. It all creates a feeling of absolutely braindead game, which hardly requires any wits to play (basically point to a direction and press W for a few minutes).    … Expand
  3. Pc080972
    May 20, 2023
    2
    Looks good, but what a bore - like a walking simulator with sporadic elements of "horror"
    Incredibly pretentious.
    After being informed by the GUI that game was saved, launching it this morning = no saves present, only new game. Might be the only thing to make this even worse - all that time spend walking having to balance all the way in rough terrain to avoid falling on your *** ...    Looks good, but what a bore - like a walking simulator with sporadic elements of "horror"
    Incredibly pretentious.

    After being informed by the GUI that game was saved, launching it this morning = no saves present, only new game. Might be the only thing to make this even worse - all that time spend walking having to balance all the way in rough terrain to avoid falling on your *** ... only to see all that time wasted due to no save game.

    Got it for free on Epic - had I paid for this **** I would have gone for a refund. Its uninstalled.    … Expand
  4. coroner01
    May 21, 2023
    2
    I didnt even give it a chance - the 1st 10mins were enough

    worst movment control ever , stumbling about the place , 0 control
  5. jorokw
    Dec 21, 2020
    2
    I made metacritic login specially to warn people to not buy Death Stranding on PC. Interesting and fresh ideas (dream like concept is rather good) - but actual gameplay is terrible. Everything is spoiled by bad UX - imagine car with climate control buried in 3rd submenu, where desired temperature is set by tapping inside passenger glove box. For example - from time to time U must pissI made metacritic login specially to warn people to not buy Death Stranding on PC. Interesting and fresh ideas (dream like concept is rather good) - but actual gameplay is terrible. Everything is spoiled by bad UX - imagine car with climate control buried in 3rd submenu, where desired temperature is set by tapping inside passenger glove box. For example - from time to time U must piss (this is OK) - but it is complex multi-step process here. What TF? While fighting bosses you have grenades in multiple slots - for example 15 grenades in 3 slots. In actual fight there is need to open another slot to use next 5 grenades.… Expand
  6. Deaden
    Jul 20, 2020
    2
    Another garbage console to PC port failure. Honestly, the creators should design games first on PC specially. Because consoles are having handicaps to do great games. Console players are thinking they are playing very quality games.. no no most of them just cheap designed, delusional tricks. Consoles are for captivity, PC platforms are for freedom! That's a certain and known thing. PeopleAnother garbage console to PC port failure. Honestly, the creators should design games first on PC specially. Because consoles are having handicaps to do great games. Console players are thinking they are playing very quality games.. no no most of them just cheap designed, delusional tricks. Consoles are for captivity, PC platforms are for freedom! That's a certain and known thing. People should stop buying consoles. Come to the PC side and play quality games for freedom. Designers will do it after consoles trashed! Also that's why console games get more lower points on PC platforms. PC gamers don't like delusional console sh...ty games.
    I gave 2 points for Norman's sake.    … Expand
  7. honest_rev7
    Sep 24, 2020
    2
    LOL, ya no it was MY DECISION to get this game for myself? Hype got to me. Cos trailers and preview stuff looked so mysterious and pretty.

    Ok so, the soundtrack is good. Casting is all Kojima's famous mates other than Amelie's character (which is the only one I liked). That guy Norman Reedus is supposed to be Everyman, but it breaks immersion cos all you can think about is The Walking    LOL, ya no it was MY DECISION to get this game for myself? Hype got to me. Cos trailers and preview stuff looked so mysterious and pretty.

    Ok so, the soundtrack is good. Casting is all Kojima's famous mates other than Amelie's character (which is the only one I liked). That guy Norman Reedus is supposed to be Everyman, but it breaks immersion cos all you can think about is The Walking Dead, init.

    But yeah, the game is all about some sort of huge open world which is basically empty. NO NPC's walking around, no romance, no surprise encounters.

    But! If your dream's desire is to walk around burning dead bodies and reconnecting the internet and Twitter then this is just right up your street!

    It's bloated like Windows 10. Nonsensical story telling that doesn't even make any sense.    … Expand
  8. Vhons
    Jul 15, 2020
    2
    The performance are really bad. Texture glitch, bugs, framerates drops and sometimes even crash.
    I've reset my PC two times yesterday, only just for play at least 2 hours with this.
    (and one hour of these two hours only for the cutscenes) And I've checked the performance of my PC, and it's all set with the recommended stuff. I think that they should resolve this issue soon, but it's    The performance are really bad. Texture glitch, bugs, framerates drops and sometimes even crash.
    I've reset my PC two times yesterday, only just for play at least 2 hours with this.
    (and one hour of these two hours only for the cutscenes)
    And I've checked the performance of my PC, and it's all set with the recommended stuff.
    I think that they should resolve this issue soon, but it's disappointing see this kind of problems. Because in this state it hard even only open this.    … Expand
  9. Ridleymain
    Dec 27, 2020
    2
    I wanted to enjoy this game, but I just could not. The game is really slow and takes a long time to get anywhere.
  10. Yowisz
    Dec 7, 2020
    2
    Naprawdę słaba gierka . Nudna i bardzo wolno rozkręcająca się. Fabuła absurdalnie słaba bez logiki jaką stara się gra tworzyć.
  11. Nintendonot
    Feb 27, 2021
    2
    Hideo Kojima continuously described death stranding as the first ever stand type game. He considered it so innovative that it would create a whole new genre of video games, and now that we have the game the question that has been on our heads for the last few years can now be answered: "What is a strand type game?" Well it's a special type of game where everything about it besides theHideo Kojima continuously described death stranding as the first ever stand type game. He considered it so innovative that it would create a whole new genre of video games, and now that we have the game the question that has been on our heads for the last few years can now be answered: "What is a strand type game?" Well it's a special type of game where everything about it besides the visuals is a complete piece of trash. Death stranding is one of the most disappointing games I have ever played. The gameplay is walking; you put some packages on your back and walk them from point A to point B. I think the goal was to try and turn walking into exciting gameplay, similar to how Mario did. Well you don't do it like this because it sucks. You'll continuously keep falling over and losing your packages for 35 hours straight. The boss fights are an absolute joke. They have no way of defeating you. Later the game turns into the worst 3rd person shooter ever. Kojima even responded to critics addressing this saying, "Americans are big fans of fps games and Death stranding is not." What does the fact that the game is 3rd person shooter have to do with Americans not liking it? Most Americans back in the day played Fortnite. Now about the story: its just meh. It revolves around the kingdom hearts method of story telling where everything is explained but there is still no context for anything. The characters don't stop talking and every single one of them has some dumb thing to say especially the character Fragile. I'd say the only good part about the game is its visuals and voice acting. I can only hope that this is the last strand type game because it is a complete embarrassment.… Expand
  12. MihAlves
    Jan 18, 2023
    2
    O jogo é bonito, mas ao mesmo tempo é repetitivo e cansativo. Faltou muita criatividade ao Kojima sobre esse jogo já que dizem que ele é um dos melhores desenvolvedores de jogos do mundo, coisa que eu discordo totalmente.
  13. Joe2539
    Jan 3, 2023
    2
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  14. sashang
    Jul 5, 2023
    1
    They should have called this game Keep Standing because most of the gameplay revolves around not tripping while you hoof it over the country. It's the first time I've ever played a hiking simulator. This is what, at its core, Death Stranding is. A terrain traversal game. I've never played a game before where I was paranoid about tripping, and falling on my face, as I rushed to balanceThey should have called this game Keep Standing because most of the gameplay revolves around not tripping while you hoof it over the country. It's the first time I've ever played a hiking simulator. This is what, at its core, Death Stranding is. A terrain traversal game. I've never played a game before where I was paranoid about tripping, and falling on my face, as I rushed to balance myself. In that respect, it is creative. But do I really want to be a hiking hero? Nah. If they focused on making it a terrain traversal puzzle game. If they made the traversal more challenging and rewarding, instead of the long grind that it is.

    The action elements of the game are tepid and uninspiring. I just wanted to turn them off while hiking and get back to not tripping over rocks and staying out of the rain. If they cut all the fluff around it, the acting, the song track, the lame action/fight then they would have a game. At the moment the auxiliary parts of the game, like the excellent sound track, are the highlights. But if I wanted a soundtrack I would have bought it. And that's the problem with Death Stranding. It's core gameplay is too diluted. It could have been a strong terrain traversal puzzle game where obstacles required ingenuity and creativity from the player to overcome. As it stands, the largest obstacle is the grinding hikes around the country, and the second largest is not tripping.    … Expand
  15. maximus99
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    A boring, unappealing disaster in one word with a bad script....! What a shame for a great director....
  16. lorddragonstar
    Jul 28, 2021
    1
    This game has some great graphics and music. But everything else ranges from mediocre to disastrous.

    The controls feel stiff, sometimes feeling sluggish other times just not responding to your input at all. I think this is by design but it's terrible and feels bad. Everything is frustrating. You tilt, you stumble, you fall, you get stuck on rocks, packages fall off you, the enemies    This game has some great graphics and music. But everything else ranges from mediocre to disastrous.

    The controls feel stiff, sometimes feeling sluggish other times just not responding to your input at all. I think this is by design but it's terrible and feels bad.
    Everything is frustrating. You tilt, you stumble, you fall, you get stuck on rocks, packages fall off you, the enemies knock your packages off, you fall in water, you slide down slopes, vehicles stick slide bonce and defy physics constantly. The UI is a complete mess and an insult to user interface design. You have to press buttons repeatedly to do anything.

    Animations play constantly and you have to repeatedly skip them. Some you can't skip and they are forced on you by an overly egotistical game designer. Nothing is fast or smooth. It's always slow, bumpy, frustrating, and too much.

    The combat is boring even on hard. There's no challenge at all. The boss fights are auto win they are so easy.

    The story is nonsense and it's told in a very repetitive manner, so many times I was just begging for them to get on with it so I could do something, even if the something was playing this boring game.

    Of the thousands of games I've played (yes, thousands) this is in my bottom 5%, and for games I've completed, it's in my bottom 5.

    And yes, it really is that bad.    … Expand
  17. darkwolf79
    Aug 29, 2022
    1
    First off, visually I can't fault the game. It looks good.
    When it comes to gameplay however, the game is nothing more then a walking simulator.
    Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of "walking sim" style games out there that I thoroughly enjoy. This, however, is not one of them. There is neither a good plot nor good gameplay that would carry the game as a whole. It's just empty    First off, visually I can't fault the game. It looks good.
    When it comes to gameplay however, the game is nothing more then a walking simulator.
    Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of "walking sim" style games out there that I thoroughly enjoy.
    This, however, is not one of them.
    There is neither a good plot nor good gameplay that would carry the game as a whole. It's just empty repetitiveness.
    Initially the game is quite intreaguing due to its atmosphere but rather quickly the plot becomes just a device to make you walk some more and repeat and collect and deliver more things repeatedly again and again. :/
    Shame, I wanted to like it, but it just doesn't work for me.    … Expand
  18. ChrisWeasel
    Dec 26, 2022
    1
    The game looks great, but the story is meh. This is easily the most boring game I have ever played. Every mission just drags on and on. And all you literally do is walk. If you want a game that looks great, this is it, but if you want a game that is fun, or challenging, this is not it
  19. Zapp_Brannigan
    Nov 1, 2020
    1
    Walking simulator. Gameplay is fetch quest the videogame (literally), with a very mediocre storyline, save your money, this game is atrocious.
  20. AymenAibeche
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    If you do a game to ps4 keep it on ps4 And the game is bad Ihope day did it a move
  21. gg22uu
    May 19, 2021
    1
    не работает на пк . пишент что система не соответствует минимальным параметрам , хотя мое железо даже чуть выше рекомендуемых .
  22. Onyru
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    Substantially it's a poorly designed game.
    With really big flaws this deliveryman simulator is basically a glorification of the fetch quests, the worst kind of mission for an open world game today.
    You go from point A to point B for all the time, and very often with very long and repetitive cutscenes. The writing and the gameplay they are also bad, and I've encountered even some really    Substantially it's a poorly designed game.
    With really big flaws this deliveryman simulator is basically a glorification of the fetch quests, the worst kind of mission for an open world game today.
    You go from point A to point B for all the time, and very often with very long and repetitive cutscenes.
    The writing and the gameplay they are also bad, and I've encountered even some really big bugs during different missions. If I can give you an advice, save your money.    … Expand
  23. ElsaIceQueen
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    The worst game I've played in the recent years.
    Only deliveries missions, and cringe plot cutscenes with terrible writings. Absolutely disgusting.
    Also, numerous textures glitch during the cutscenes, and framerates drops under 30fps.
    The most boring experience I've ever had.
  24. iniko
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    Definitely a bad game. Texture with gliches in the cutscenes, bugs, monotony and repetitiveness of gameplay and plot. Certainly the worst work done by Kojima.
    I am surprised at how you can even think of making a game filled only with fetch quests.
  25. Dirodi
    Jul 22, 2020
    1
    Juego aburrido y repetitivo. Una estafa considerable. Arriesga mucho y fracasa. El único punto positivo es el apartado gráfico, pero es insuficiente.
  26. bartwart
    Jul 31, 2020
    1
    Repetitive, boring trash bookended by an LSD fever dream story. I'm never buying a Kojima game again.
  27. AlexXZ
    Jul 30, 2020
    1
    можно было бы сказать что то хорошее но не буду потому что игра отвратительная и вся шумиха на протяжении нескольких лет что это что то уникальное а на деле пшик. а ну да про плаплаченое голосование и то что было до этого на метакритике тожеможно было бы сказать что то хорошее но не буду потому что игра отвратительная и вся шумиха на протяжении нескольких лет что это что то уникальное а на деле пшик. а ну да про плаплаченое голосование и то что было до этого на метакритике тоже
  28. hertzian68
    Nov 16, 2020
    1
    Banal, pretentious, pagan, satanic, cringey garbage. The graphics don't look any better than MGSV at the same settings. gtx 1070. Hideous Kochimp and his kabbalistic marxist satanic masonic world view on full view here. Gross. Disgusting. Hypocritical. I like to play games, not watch interactive movies which is what this really is, kochimp needs to just move over completely to movies andBanal, pretentious, pagan, satanic, cringey garbage. The graphics don't look any better than MGSV at the same settings. gtx 1070. Hideous Kochimp and his kabbalistic marxist satanic masonic world view on full view here. Gross. Disgusting. Hypocritical. I like to play games, not watch interactive movies which is what this really is, kochimp needs to just move over completely to movies and leave gaming the heck alone. This should be called the "Skip Button Simulator" because I must have hit that 100x. From the emo cringey music you're forced to listen to, to the awful Monster product placement I just couldn't recommend this at any price. If you're curious watch a yt video you'd get 99% the same experience but for free. There is almost no game PLAY here, and what there is is very banal, delivering stuff to futuristic cities which could easily just drop ship from altitude with the tech on display everywhere else, ridiculous. Drones? Crying baby if you slip is really annoying. No separate audio options for music, score and voice. Even when I turned down the volume it was too loud on headphones. The story is totally pagan kabbalistic marxist trash. People now are so programmed and dumbed down it's scary, thus the "rave" reviews by the whore presstitutes and retarded players.… Expand
  29. Mitradis
    Dec 16, 2020
    1
    this game for americans, about americans election and their experiences about this
  30. Wiezzel
    Nov 1, 2021
    1
    Game is very disappointing in many ways.
    First of, the gameplay, really something that does not belong in a game.
    Moving your characters feels clunky, the suppose "balance" mechanic is very pathetic and only in the way of the game. My best guess is that added that to make it feel "difficult" when it is just a dumb constant struggle. THE ONLY maybe good thing, is that you like decent    Game is very disappointing in many ways.
    First of, the gameplay, really something that does not belong in a game.
    Moving your characters feels clunky, the suppose "balance" mechanic is very pathetic and only in the way of the game. My best guess is that added that to make it feel "difficult" when it is just a dumb constant struggle.

    THE ONLY maybe good thing, is that you like decent environment looking "ok" and some music that forces you to watch the game as a movie and not playing really.
    There is so much more that the game and not worth wasting my time with it.    … Expand
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#16 Best PC Game of 2020
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#11 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
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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