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title: "DEATH STRANDING — Belly Score 9.5 | Belly Score"
url: https://bellyscore.com/game/death-stranding
description: "DEATH STRANDING gets a Belly Score of 9.5/10. BELLY APPROVED"
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# DEATH STRANDING

Belly Score

9.5

Community Score

Platform

PlayStation 4: https://bellyscore.com/best/platform/playstation-4,
PlayStation 5: https://bellyscore.com/best/platform/playstation-5,
PC: https://bellyscore.com/best/platform/pc,
Xbox Series X/S: https://bellyscore.com/best/platform/xbox-series-x-s

Genre

Action-Adventure: https://bellyscore.com/best/genre/action-adventure

Released

Nov 8, 2019: https://bellyscore.com/best/year/2019

Developer

KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS

Publisher

Sony Interactive Entertainment, 505 Games

About

Forget everything you know about action heroes. In this surreal, post-apocalyptic odyssey, you play as a glorified delivery person trekking across a shattered America. It is a meditative, often grueling simulation of logistics where your greatest enemy is gravity and a poorly balanced backpack. While you navigate haunting, desolate landscapes to reconnect isolated bunkers, the game forces you to confront the weight of your choices—literally. It is a bizarre, slow-burn masterpiece that turns the mundane act of walking into a high-stakes, deeply atmospheric test of patience and persistence.

The Belly's Verdict

BELLY APPROVED

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## Prediction Results

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Vibe Tags

Atmospheric: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/atmospheric
Slow-Burn: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/slow-burn
Lonely: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/lonely
Otherworldly: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/otherworldly
Thought-Provoking: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/thought-provoking
Methodical: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/methodical

Themes

Post-Apocalyptic: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/post-apocalyptic
Supernatural: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/supernatural
Psychological: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/psychological
Nature / Wilderness: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/nature-wilderness

Original Belly Score Video

## Related Games

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Adventurous Exploratory Discovery-Driven +3
https://bellyscore.com/game/zelda-breath-of-the-wild

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### Persona 5 Royal

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Community

3.6

1 rating

### ELDEN RING: SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE

Action · RPG · Adventure

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Dark Fantasy Mythology Monsters +1

Adventurous Discovery-Driven Atmospheric +3
https://bellyscore.com/game/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree

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Epic Mysterious Thought-Provoking +3
https://bellyscore.com/game/xenogears

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