Death Stranding is now inbound for Xbox Game Pass for PC, following a cryptic teaser posted yesterday to the official PC Game Pass Twitter account.
Eyebrows were raised when the profile picture for the account was changed to what looked like an extremely nondescript hill. Naturally, social media sleuths leapt upon this with the fervour of a Labrador upon an unattended bowl of mac and cheese, and identified it as the landscape of the post-apocalyptic America in Death Stranding. Surely, said detractors, there would be no way that Sony's game would become available on its competitor's subscription service.
Check out the trailer for Death Stranding below!
Lo and behold, they've only gone and done it. "Death Stranding tells a groundbreaking story of perseverance through an emotional adventure that those in the Microsoft community can now experience for the first time," reads the press release. "Connect with people around the world via the unique Social Strand System. Contribute hard-earned resources to improve your surroundings as well as the worlds of other players. Strategically place highways, zip-lines, safehouses and other structures to make terrain more easily traversable and earn Likes from the community. Promote unity by Liking player-created structures appearing in your own world."
Hideo Kojima was pretty proud that he'd stumbled upon a totally new genre of game with Death Stranding, defining it as a "strand game" for its ability to create social connections between players and achieve shared goals collaboratively. This is similarly the case in Animal Crossing, Dark Souls, Splatoon, Hay Day, Pokemon... but whatever. Those games don't have the feature to construct grenades out of the character's waste and urinate on mushrooms to help them grow. Watch out for Death Stranding when it touches down on PC Game Pass on 23 August.
Topics: PC, Death Stranding, Xbox Game Pass