Death Stranding 2: Everything we know about Hideo Kojima’s next game

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In 2019, Hideo Kojima — Metal Gear Solid creator, and perhaps Hollywood’s favorite gaming auteur — released his first game as the head of his own independent studio, after parting ways with Konami. Depending who you asked at the time, Death Stranding was either a visionary work or completely incomprehensible — or both. It’s an unforgettable experience though, and subsequent editions have converted their fair share of skeptics.

Now Kojima is set to return with Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (yes, it’s really called that). Like its predecessor, it’s set to combine unique hiking gameplay with exposition-heavy cutscenes, Yoji Shinkawa’s striking character designs, and a deeply strange sci-fi plot about building connections between people in a lonely, hostile world where the veil between life and death has been torn down.

Read on for everything we currently know about Death Stranding 2.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is due to be released on PlayStation 5 in 2025. That’s as much of a date as we have at the moment. Where it will fall in the year is anyone’s guess, and it may well depend on the eventual release date for Grand Theft Auto 6, which will probably send other games publishers scattering to get as far away from it as they reasonably can — perhaps even into 2026, although Sony will be keen to avoid delays to PlayStation exclusives after a quiet year in 2024. If it’s any indication, the original game had a release date of Nov. 8 in 2019.

Death Stranding 2 is just one of the reasons next year is set to be such a packed year for big games, even if firm 2025 release dates are few and far between right now.

At least to begin with, yes — but a later PC release is almost certain. Like the original game, Death Stranding 2 is the result of a partnership between Kojima Productions and Sony, and in all likelihood will remain a PlayStation console exclusive. So far, it has only been confirmed for release on PlayStation 5.

However, Death Stranding got a later release on PC,