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Five mobile games like Death Stranding

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Five mobile games like Death Stranding

Try playing these five games at the same time for a simulated Kojima experience

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Death Stranding is all the rage right now. After a divisive, but mostly positive, series of critical reviews last week, now people all over the world can finally immerse themselves in Hideo Kojima's new "social strand" system. Except for us on mobile, we're left out.

Or are we? For I have put together a complete list of games that are like Death Stranding. Kind of. Well, the thing is, I haven't played Death Stranding. Yeah, I know, Sony hasn't reached out to I, Dave, the Pocket Gamer guy. Offensive. Well to be fair Death Stranding is hardly a portable game, but if Sony wants me to write about playing it on Vita through remote play… Sony, are you reading this? My email is in my author bio.

So, keeping in mind the fact that I've not played Death Stranding, and that I know very little about it despite sitting through a feature-length trailer playlist, I've decided to offer up a few games which, in some way, have elements of Death Stranding to them. If you try to multitask and play them all at once, you'll essentially have the Death Stranding experience. Just swap through the apps really quickly.

Journey

In Death Stranding, you do a lot of walking, and I'm not really sure where to. While playing Journey for the first time, that's exactly what you will be feeling deep inside.

You will be wandering across blood-tinted deserts, viewing marvelous vistas, watching awe-inspiring structures unveil themselves before your eyes.

What your goal is is actually a bit of a mystery until you near completion, and once again, that's exactly what I think while witnessing Death Stranding trailers. Heck, a spoiler-free review didn't even help, despite being an hour long. But Journey is probably similar. I think.

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Animal Crossing Pocket Camp

I'm pretty sure that Normas Reedus is a delivery man in Death Stranding, and he carries around a lot of junk in his pockets and stuff. Just like Animal Crossing. Exactly.

In Animal Crossing, many of your duties will be to give animal villagers the items they desire in exchange for adoration and gifts. It's often not a bad trade.

Mind you, in the current iteration of Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, you can get all of those items automatically delivered for you, really taking away from the fetch quest experience. I guess Pete the Pelican, who delivers your gifts, is more of a Norman Reedus than your own character.

2
Call of Duty Mobile

I think Death Stranding has guns in it. Like, I swear I remember a behind the scenes thing where they were holding guns in mo-cap suits? Yeah, I mean, I'm probably right. There's probably guns in it. Call of Duty Mobile has guns.

But not only that, Call of Duty Mobile has a battle royale. Run around solo, collect loot, slowly make your way across hills and mountains. See? Just like Death Stranding!

When a bunch of enemies rock up on you, just imagine it's those Mules that show up in cars to beat you down. Basically the same thing.

3
BTS World

We've been here before. I don't really know what BTS are, still. No, I mean, I get it, they're a K-pop band of some sort, but I don't know what they are, you know?

Also, didn't one of the band - Jungkook or something - get in a car accident and seriously hurt someone, and his stans were covering it up on social media? That's messed up, yo.

Anyway, BTS are celebrities. Death Stranding features a bunch of celebrities. You see where I'm going with this? Whenever you feel the need to witness dialogue and celebrities for thirty minutes straight, pop on BTS World.

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Telling Lies

Finally, we have my favourite part of any Hideo Kojima game. Highly cinematic, engaging scenes which leave you thinking "huh? What did that mean?" every two minutes. And that's what Telling Lies is all about.

Telling Lies is the successor to Her Story, and allows you to uncover a great mystery at your own pace, while masterfully being led down a breadcrumb trail of clues you discover while watching a huge library of footage.

This adds the mystery and the cinematography we're missing in this mix up of games, and that's great, because both Her Story and Telling Lies are the kind of game where, at the end, you might still be unsure whether you actually understood the story being told at all. Just like a Hideo Kojima game.

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Dave Aubrey
Dave Aubrey
Dave is the Guides Editor at Pocket Gamer. Specialises in Nintendo, complains about them for a living.