{"id":1164531,"date":"2026-02-11T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a6tneuKapJzqfa6naiPPyY"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:51:11","slug":"hideo-kojima-says-death-strandings-now-had-over-20-million-players-and-the-fact-folk-are-still-playing-makes-me-the-happiest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hideo-kojima-says-death-strandings-now-had-over-20-million-players-and-the-fact-folk-are-still-playing-makes-me-the-happiest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding&#8217;s now had over 20 million players, and the fact folk are still playing &#8216;makes me the happiest&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Three months before the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which looks absolutely bananas, Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions have announced that Death Stranding, a Hideo Kojima game directed by Hideo Kojima (OK I&#8217;ll stop), has surpassed 20 million players.<\/p>\n<p>Yes that&#8217;s players not sales, though it does suggest a very healthy sales count: Death Stranding was also very briefly a freebie on the Epic Game Store, and included with PC Game Pass for a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of Death Stranding players has exceeded 20 million,&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/1906722421668983204\" target=\"_blank\">said Kojima<\/a>. &#8220;Thank you very much. Sams from all over the world are still delivering. You are connecting the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As is his wont, the director then reflected on the journey the game&#8217;s been on. &#8220;The PS4 version was released in November 2019. Shortly after, the world was hit by the pandemic,&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/1906722421668983204\" target=\"_blank\">said Kojima<\/a>. He goes on to list the subsequent releases across different platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve finally reached 20 million porters. We look forward to your continued support,&#8221; ended Kojima. &#8220;But even after five years from the initial release, many are still playing the game. That makes me the happiest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Death Stranding has had an undeniable impact, not least because of that weird coincidence with the pandemic. One of the game&#8217;s major themes is the atomisation of contemporary society, how the world in some ways encourages us towards a solitary lifestyle with less and less in-person social contact, and the importance of making and maintaining connections.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this hit just before everyone went into a two year spell of lockdown is one of those life-meets-art moments one could never script. You only need to look at Kojima&#8217;s X account on every given day to see him still retweeting praise and thanks from players who find the experience resonating with them, and it&#8217;s one of those games that seems to have been much better understood over time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"hFt8qFtWFYkgRoXUr6bcgC\" name=\"Death Stranding 2 Neil\" alt=\"The character Neil in Death Stranding 2, who here is posing like Solid Snake.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hideo-kojima-says-death-strandings-now-had-over-20-million-players-and-the-fact-folk-are-still-playing-makes-me-the-happiest.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kojima Productions)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I lost everything when I became alone nine years ago,&#8221; Kojima said at <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/action\/hideo-kojima-says-death-strandings-themes-of-connection-came-about-because-i-thought-i-lost-everything-when-i-became-alone-nine-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">a recent SXSW panel<\/a> discussing these themes, referencing his departure from Konami after the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. &#8220;[But] I had something very important, which was connection with people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Death Stranding has surpassed 20 million players worldwide,&#8221; added <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KojiPro2015_EN\/status\/1906647668300079450\" target=\"_blank\">a post from Kojima Productions<\/a>. &#8220;To everyone who built bridges, paved roads, and delivered cargo\u2014here\u2019s a massive &#8216;Like!&#8217; Each and every one of your connections helped make this incredible milestone possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Death Stranding 2: On The Beach releases on PS5 June 25 (<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/death-stranding-2s-ps5-release-date-is-in-june-lets-hope-it-doesnt-take-eight-months-to-hit-pc-this-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">no PC date is confirmed yet<\/a>: the first took eight months to make the jump) and, yep, it does look like Kojima has just said &#8220;screw it&#8221; and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/hideo-kojima-really-just-went-screw-it-and-made-metal-gear-stranding\/\" target=\"_blank\">made Metal Gear Stranding<\/a>. If you can&#8217;t get enough of the madness, here&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/everything-cool-i-noticed-in-the-new-death-stranding-2-trailer-after-sinking-150-hours-into-the-first-death-stranding\/\" target=\"_blank\">all the cool details<\/a> PCG&#8217;s Morgan Park has managed to winkle-out of the trailers so far.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/hideo-kojima-says-death-strandings-now-had-over-20-million-players-and-the-fact-folk-are-still-playing-makes-me-the-happiest\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months before the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which looks absolutely bananas, Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions have announced that Death Stranding, a Hideo Kojima game directed by Hideo Kojima (OK I&#8217;ll stop), has surpassed 20 million players. Yes that&#8217;s players not sales, though it does suggest a very healthy sales count: Death Stranding was also very briefly a freebie on the Epic Game Store, and included with PC Game Pass for a time. &#8220;The number of Death Stranding players has exceeded 20 million,&#8221; said Kojima. &#8220;Thank you very much. Sams from all over the world are still delivering. You are connecting the world.&#8221; As is his wont, the director then reflected on the journey the game&#8217;s been on. &#8220;The PS4&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hideo-kojima-says-death-strandings-now-had-over-20-million-players-and-the-fact-folk-are-still-playing-makes-me-the-happiest\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-1164531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding&#039;s now had over 20 million players, and the fact folk are still 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