Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore will probably be launched on June 26 for PlayStation 5, sport 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 have a look at Demise Stranding 2 and its stars, together with some recent faces. The sequel to the 2019 motion sport 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.)
Demise Stranding 2’s new trailer even seems to have a handful of nods to Kojima’s earlier sport franchise, Steel Gear Strong. Marinelli’s Neil seems unmistakably like Strong Snake at one level, with the enormous tar creature that fuses with the DHV Magellan — changing into the Magellan Man, Kojima stated — giving Steel Gear Rex/Sahelanthropus vibes. Past that, there’s loads of gameplay motion and story hints to chew on for Demise Stranding followers.
Kojima Productions’ new trailer explains that Demise 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 Seashore 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 Demise Stranding 2’s first trailer at 2022’s The Recreation Awards, Kojima stated his experiences throughout the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic prompted him to remodel the sport’s script, which is able to observe the occasions of the primary sport’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 12 months confirmed the supply firm Bridges labored for has dissolved and a brand new group referred to as Drawbridge has risen instead. However as with all Kojima-led video games, the precise particulars are murky.