The Death Stranding series has passed 28 million players worldwide, Hideo Kojima announced on the original game's seventh anniversary.
Kojima shared the milestone on X (formerly Twitter) on November 7th, writing: "DEATH STRANDING turns 7 today (7 years since its release)! Thank you to all the Sam Ones around the world!" The post carried a Kojima Productions anniversary graphic in English and Japanese that read "28 million porters worldwide" above the line "7 years since BB was born".
What the 28 million figure counts
A footnote on the graphic said the figure counts players, not copies sold. It includes all console and PC versions of the games, as well as free access through various subscription services. It also covers three releases: Death Stranding, Death Stranding Director's Cut and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
The last official number came on March 31st 2025, when Kojima Productions said the first game had connected more than 20 million porters across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox, iOS and Amazon Luna. That earlier figure did not include the sequel, so the two numbers are not a straight comparison.
Death Stranding so far
The original Death Stranding launched on November 8th 2019. Players take the role of Sam Porter, a courier tasked with reuniting a divided America and re-establishing connections between the last remnants of humanity. Its cast included Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Guillermo del Toro and Margaret Qualley.
Death Stranding Director's Cut, which Kojima Productions calls the definitive version of the game, is available on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Epic, iOS and Amazon Luna. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, announced as a PlayStation 5 exclusive, brought back Reedus, Seydoux and Troy Baker, joined by Elle Fanning, Shioli Kutsuna and film director George Miller. The studio has also worked with Disney+, which streams the documentary Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds about the making of the first game.
