Once before, Hideo Kojima commented on the season of Death Stranding, but could not name an exact number of hours. As so often in open-world games, this is very individual and based on how much the player deals with the game.
Kojima said so far only that you have to invest "a lot of time" in Death Stranding, which is also a pretty elastic concept. To narrow that down a bit, we have summarized a few seasons that we have personally completed.
So we have for the entire story with all cutscenes and the absolute end, but only a few, almost no side missions (road construction, constructions, etc.) and a few breaks just over 39 hours needed. Most of the time we were on the way on foot, and have taken about 9 hours only the cutscenes.
After that, we once again completely explored the first eastern area of Death Stranding, including all main and side missions, often with the Threewheeler bike on the way, as well as plundering the Mules camp, which took between 9 and 10 hours. In addition, there are optional delivery orders with lost freight of the other players, which we have largely left but.
If you now look at other Internet reports that have completed a natural gameplay, so the story missions, a few side missions, the exploration of the game world, etc., give many a little more than 50 hours, which is in our estimation, a realistic number. These should be planned to master Death Stranding to the very end and also take some time for the game.
Eastern part of the map
Size of the game world
Then we once measured the size of the game world, which extends over the eastern part and a central part, but not always can be explored to the edge, at least that is not necessary from the point of view of the story. From the east of the map, where the game begins, to the west, where the beach is located, it is according to the game about 12.5 kilometers.
Sounds not so much, but takes time, especially because you either have to go many detours, especially through the mountains and often on foot, as well as many missions constantly send back and forth between the same points. The slow pace of the game then does the rest.
Central part of the map with beach below right
By the way, a mission awaits you in the end where you have to go back to the starting point over the complete map. Strangely, we had to do it without shoes and could use no vehicles, etc. This trip took a little over 5 hours, so with an incredible amount of patience, which is in demand here. There is also a fast travel function only to get from the central part to the eastern part. Within the areas you can not travel, as well as the function was locked in the said mission.
Death Stranding officially releases this Friday.
