Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside shall be launched on June 26 for PlayStation 5, recreation director and Kojima Productions founder Hideo Kojima introduced Sunday throughout a panel at SXSW 2025 with a prolonged new trailer for the sport.
That trailer supplied a brand new 10-minute take a look at Dying Stranding 2 and its stars, together with some contemporary faces. The sequel to the 2019 motion recreation will as soon as once more star Norman Reedus as Sam Bridges, the package-toting hero of its weird story. Léa Seydoux and Troy Baker will return too, as Fragile and Higgs, respectively. They’ll be joined by new characters performed by Elle Fanning (Tomorrow), Shioli Kutsuna (Wet), and George Miller (Tarman). Additionally becoming a member of the solid are Luca Marinelli as Neil, Debra Wilson as Physician, and Alissa Jung as Lucy. (There’s additionally a cameo from Korean motion star Lee Dong-seok, aka Don Lee.)
Dying Stranding 2’s new trailer even seems to have a handful of nods to Kojima’s earlier recreation franchise, Metallic Gear Strong. Marinelli’s Neil seems to be unmistakably like Strong Snake at one level, with the large tar creature that fuses with the DHV Magellan — turning into the Magellan Man, Kojima stated — giving Metallic Gear Rex/Sahelanthropus vibes. Past that, there’s loads of gameplay motion and story hints to chew on for Dying Stranding followers.
Kojima Productions’ new trailer explains that Dying Stranding 2 is about 11 months after the formation of the United Cities of America. Servers line the seaside and deliveries have been automated, ostensibly placing porters like Sam out of labor. Chiralium from the Seaside continues to warp the atmosphere (and the cats!), simply as a brand new faction is spreading its affect. However none of that, it appears, will cease Sam from doing his job.
In Dying Stranding 2’s first trailer at 2022’s The Sport Awards, Kojima stated his experiences in the course of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic prompted him to transform the sport’s script, which can observe the occasions of the primary recreation’s journey throughout a post-apocalyptic America ravaged by inky black monsters often called Beached Issues.
The second, 10-minute trailer from a State of Play stream final yr confirmed the supply firm Bridges labored for has dissolved and a brand new group known as Drawbridge has risen as an alternative. However as with all Kojima-led video games, the precise particulars are murky.