Steam app 1850570 · updated 25 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
57 months, March 2022 to November 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
23 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
30 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 567 hourly samples from 08 Oct, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
7 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 151 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages. General Mature Content
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| DEATH STRANDING Digital Artbook | Windows | 30 Mar 2022 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | ds.exe | windows 64 | ||
| RuntimeDebug build | ds.rtdbg.exe | -package | windows 64 | branch qa-rtdbg,working-branch,preview,trial,trial-2 |
| Submission build | ds.exe | windows 64 | branch qa-rtdbg,working-branch,preview,trial,trial-2 | |
| ReleaseSym build | ds.ReleaseSym.exe | -package | windows 64 | branch qa-rtdbg,working-branch,preview,trial,trial-2 |
| Steam Submission MiSecure | NIP.Win64.Submission.DX12.Steam.MiSecure.exe | -package | windows 64 | branch qa-rtdbg,working-branch,preview,trial,trial-2 |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
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WinAppDataLocal | KojimaProductions/DeathStrandingDC/{Steam3AccountID} | *.* and below |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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