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SummaryFrom legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded and remastered for the PlayStation 5 console in this definitive Director’s Cut. In the future, a mysterious event known as the Death Stranding has opened a doorway between the living and the dead, leading to grotesque creatures from the afterlife roaming the f... Read More
Rated M
Rated Mfor Mature

Developer:Kojima Productions

Death Stranding: Director's Cut

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Sep 24, 2021
Metascore
Generally Favorable
85
User score
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8.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
85
89% Positive
59 Reviews
11% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Dec 2, 2021
100
Gamersky
Whether the 4k60 frames or the powerful features of DualSense, the experience of Death Stranding: Director's Cut has been taken to another level. With this Director's Cut, there will be some new feelings when going through the "journey of connection" again.
Sep 23, 2021
95
Jeuxvideo.com
Two years later, Death Stranding remains a masterpiece. Undoubtedly always so divisive, the last born of Kojima Productions offers a unique gaming experience, transfigured by the capacities of a PlayStation 5 allowing him to give everything he has in the belly, to the point of pouring into bulimia new unpublished content. Admittedly, not all are equal, but the experience offered by this Director's Cut is complete, can potentially suit more player profiles, can potentially appeal to those who had succumbed to this fantastic and exotic journey on PS4 and who will appreciate to (re) live new adventures with a Norman Reedus larger than life. Certainly a must have for anyone who owns a PS5 and wants to embark on a unique game that is landmark and still upsets us today.
User score
Generally Favorable
8.2
79% Positive
2149 Ratings
12% Mixed
317 Ratings
10% Negative
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Sep 1, 2026
10
Cappikaze
La verdad , una obra de arte , una de las historias mas profundas y para analizar en un videojuego , nunca me senti tan **** como en este videojuego .
Aug 4, 2026
10
Punkgiver
This is not a game for everyone, but once you find beauty in it, it will capture you like a BT and won’t let go. On my first download, I have played the game for 2h, and then uninstalled it. I came back to it after 4 years after a long day at work and holy **** this game is ingenious. The story, the mind-numbing mechanics, and the whole experience is typical Kojima, yet unlike anything I have played before. This is primarily not a game for “killers” who love to play quick reward games like Call of Duty, but more for explorers, grinders, and people who just want to chill after a long day at work. Walking simulator at first glance, at a second completely different genre of entertainment. Not a game I’d typically go for, but it is worth to grind through it. At the end of the journey you’ll find yourself appreciating it like a fine wine would taste to a connoisseur, and not as a silly bitter **** juice to a child. This is literally thousand steps forward in video-gaming imagination.
Sep 23, 2021
90
GameMAG
Death Stranding: Director's Cut is great way to revisit the game, especially if you enjoyed your first playthrough. And now it's time to go back to the roads most taken with your fellow BB in hands. Unity always beats isolation, you only need to make the first step.
Sep 23, 2021
90
CGMagazine
Death Stranding the Director's Cut is the definitive way to experience the game and is worth checking out for those who may have missed it on other platforms.
Sep 23, 2021
82
Meristation
Although the story is interesting, it fails because the missions are designed for infiltration, but the game lacks enough mechanics in that regard. Something similar happens with vehicle racing, that the controls are very simple and were not conceived for a modality of this ready. What is very good is the shooting range, an addition that allows you to test the weapons before using them with the enemy through small missions. In short, with its mistakes, this is the best way to enjoy the experience that Death Stranding proposes.
Sep 23, 2021
80
Daily Star
Overall, this is a full-to-bursting title, even bigger than the huge PS4 original. It looks astounding, sounds great and that immersive feedback in the controller brings this odd sci-fi world to life like never before. If you played the original and feel ‘done’ with it, there may not be enough big tweaks to bring you back for another go. But the upgrade price point is good and it’ll definitely appeal to those gamers who missed out on playing the original and now fancy jumping in on PS5.
Sep 23, 2021
50
ComicBook
There's no denying Death Stranding: Director's Cut's technical achievements. It's incredibly immersive, putting every new capability built into the PlayStation 5 to the test and coming out triumphant. If you were disappointed by Death Stranding's unwieldy gameplay the first time around, the Director's Cut isn't going to win you over. But if Kojima's storytelling took you in, this will be a worthwhile upgrade.
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Jul 14, 2026
10
Duhmaster21234
This is the most complex and beautiful storyline games I have played! Kept me guessing and was a game I couldn’t leave behind.
Jul 5, 2026
7
Cossimo
Encuentro el paisaje horrible con esas rocas de basalto casi superables. Si no fuera por la extrema dificultad del paisaje, lo pondría en un 9. Los menús son poco intuitivos pero se aprenden.
Jan 3, 2026
7
royalguy07
Had a reasonable amount of fun playing the first few chapters. Its just too all over the place for me to stay focused on.
May 8, 2026
4
Worsy
You can only say good things about the first 10 hours of the game. In fact, I gave it a 4/10 solely out of grace for those first 10 hours. If the game finished in like 15-20 hours, it could have been a genuinely great game with its atmosphere, universe, and unique concept. The graphics are beyond immense; using structures built by other players to take a shortcut, or spotting a generator placed by someone right when your battery is about to die, feels nice. Or joining forces with other players to build roads and essentially create shortcuts—it has unique and good sides like that. BUT IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE THE GAME 50 HOURS LONG. I don't **** understand what Kojima was relying on or believing in to make a 50-hour game. If someone other than Kojima had made this game, nobody would even look at it, nobody would buy it—hell, let alone buying it, nobody would even hear about it. But just because Kojima made a game, 10/10s and 5/5s are flying everywhere. In a game where most mechanics are like ****, nobody other than Kojima could pull off such high scores. There are things it does well, I got no complaints about those, it's even an innovative game, but doing the exact same things for 50 hours pisses you off. After a certain point, yeah, new things are added—like power skeletons, cars, floating carriers and stuff, cool things come along. But there is absolutely no gameplay or story spread across 50 hours. 95% of the game is just carrying cargo to holograms anyway. YOU DO THE EXACT SAME THING FOR 50 HOURS, WHAT THE HELL IS 10/10 ABOUT THIS???? In other games, when things get repetitive for 5-10 hours, people lose their minds, go crazy, hurl insults, give low scores, but when it comes to this game, they call it amazing. I waited, I genuinely waited, thinking 'surely this game won't go on like this until the end, there's gotta be a different mission,' but NOPE! For 50 hours, carry cargo to that hologram, head back, carry cargo again to the place you already delivered to before. I mean, is this actually fun now? Fine, we did this for the first 10 hours, but bro, why are we doing the same thing for 40 more hours? Enemy variety is practically nonexistent. As far as I know, there are like 2 types of enemies in a massive 50-HOUR game. They just keep rehashing and serving them to us, after a point you can't even take a step because of the enemies. Every step is either BTs or campers. After a point, the campers get guns and stuff too, but bro, they're the same guys at the end of the day. DRIVING CARS IS TERRIBLE, RIDING MOTORCYCLES IS TERRIBLE. What kind of truck gets stuck on gravel, man? Leaving everything else aside, there’s a truck in this game that stubbornly steers right and falls down, damaging the cargo even though I’m turning left. It's like a Transformer going on its own, this **** truck. Don't buy it, don't let anyone buy it. People praise it so much just because Kojima made it, otherwise you wouldn't give $1 for this game, let me put it that way. The first 10 hours are nice, but when you do the exact same thing for the remaining 40 hours, that word 'nice' instantly gets replaced by cursing. Death Stranding became the first game in a long time that I started and dropped without finishing.
Jan 24, 2026
4
Vonluchestein
edgy to the point of being disgusting. most of the gameplay is unique in a boring way. i really cant understand the point of carryng stuff like Uber Eats deliveryman
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