Death Stranding: Director's Cut
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: Director's Cut is an adventure developed by Kojima Productions, released 24 September 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, iOS and Mac.
What Death Stranding: Director's Cut is
Death Stranding: Director's Cut is an adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2021. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Decima. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
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: Director's Cut is the second of 4 entries we hold in the Death Stranding series. It arrived 2 years after Death Stranding. The next entry was Death Stranding: Director's Cut - Digital Deluxe Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 91 is 2 points above the series average of 89. The highest-rated entry is Death Stranding 2: On the Beach at 92.
How it was received
Death Stranding: Director's Cut holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 147 votes.
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 4 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: Director's Cut launched on 24 September 2021, within three weeks of Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6 and Tales of Arise. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6, Tales of Arise.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Death Stranding: Director's Cut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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