Death Stranding is an upcoming action game developed by Kojima Productions. Actors Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen will portray leading characters in the game through motion capture, facial scanning, and vocal performance; director Guillermo del Toro will also contribute his likeness to another character through facial and body scanning. The game’s title is a reference to the cetacean stranding phenomenon.

Death Stranding is an action game set in an open world environment, which also includes multiplayer functions.

What people are playing today in open-world action games, or linear action games, it will compare naturally to them, It will feel familiar. But after an hour or two of playing, you will start to feel something different, something new that you haven’t played. The story is about connections, what you call ‘strands’ in psychology – how people are connected.