Death Stranding is an developed by . It is the first game from director and Kojima Productions after their split from in 2015. It was published by for the in November 2019 and by for in July 2020. A version was released for the in September 2021, followed by a release for Windows in March 2022.
The game is set in the United States following a cataclysmic event which caused destructive creatures to begin roaming the Earth. Players control Sam Porter Bridges (), a courier tasked with delivering supplies to isolated colonies and reconnecting them via a wireless communications network. Alongside Reedus, the game features actors , , , , , and , in addition to the likenesses of film directors and as supporting characters.Death Stranding is an set in an , and includes asynchronous functions. Kojima refers to Death Stranding as the first "strand game", an original genre characterized by the game's incorporation of social elements. Kojima compared this genre to how his earlier game —now considered a —was called an action game during its release because the stealth genre had not been established.
