Death Stranding 2: On the Beach? More like on the PC. A now-deleted ESRB rating showed the Game of the Year contender has been rated for Windows PC, indicating it may be on its way to PC in the near future.
Polygon has reached out to Sony for comment regarding Death Stranding 2: On the Beach‘s likely PC release, and will update this post accordingly.
Unsurprisingly, Death Stranding 2 has been rated M for Mature for strong language, partial nudity, and violence. The rating summary is a reminder of how bonkers these games can get, pointing out the “battle guitar” melee weapon and a scene where “a man’s hands and legs [are] sliced off by a robotic samurai.”
Typically, Sony-published games come to Windows PC around a year, sometimes two, after releasing on PlayStation. (Helldivers 2 simultaneous console and PC launch is an outlier here.) For example, the first Death Stranding came to Windows PC about eight months after it released on PlayStation 4. Sony published Stellar Blade on Steam 14 months after its initial PS5 release.
Given that Sony Interactive Entertainment was listed under the game’s title on the ESRB page, it seems like Sony will publish Death Stranding 2 on Windows PC this time around. 505 Games handled the PC ports of the first game (the original release and Death Stranding Director’s Cut), and you can see 505 listed on their PC ESRB pages.
Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach launched to rave reviews over the summer, with Polygon’s review calling it “a tour de force: a smooth, incredibly accomplished iteration on a true original that has lost maybe a little of its awkward spikiness, but none of its hypnotic power.” It’s currently available for PS5.
