Since Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has been out for a few months now, director Hideo Kojima has revealed that he already has a concept for a third game in the franchise ready. In an interview with PlayStation Arabia, Kojima also mentioned that he doesn’t want to make the title himself. Rather, he wants someone else to develop Death Stranding 3.
As caught by social media user Genki_JPN, Kojima considers the ending to Death Stranding 2: On the Beach as a finale for his time working on the franchise. However, he has written up the concepts for a third Death Stranding game in the hopes that someone else will make it.
“I have no plans to make that (DS3) at the moment,” he said. “Because the ending of Death Stranding 2 was my finale of 1 and 2. But I already wrote the concept of DS3. So I have that in data. I hope that someone will create it for me.”
This decision likely comes down to the fact that Kojima is also working on two other major game projects now that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has been finished – Physint and OD. The former is slated to be a stealth game and was conceptualised by Kojima because fans have wanted him to make something like a Metal Gear title since his exit from Konami.
“Of course, I have lots of new ideas that I want to create,” Kojima said about working on Physint back in May. “But when I became sick during the pandemic, I realised that a lot of people wanted me to make something like Metal Gear. That’s when I had the idea for a new espionage game. I reflected, and thought the idea was good.”
In February 2024, Kojima had also explained his decision to return to the espionage genre after having worked on Death Stranding since he left Konami. In an interview, Kojima mentioned that he first wanted to create a new IP to challenge himself, which led to the development of the original Death Stranding. However, after working on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, he has wanted to explore some of the new ideas he’s been getting.
“And since then, there have been a lot of new ideas. But in the last eight years, every day on social media, from users all around the world, people have been asking me to create another Metal Gear and stuff like that.”
While Physint is still some time away, with Kojima noting earlier this month that it was still in the “conceptual stage”, he is also working with Microsoft on horror title OD. While Kojima has previously noted that Physint is still five or six years away, questions about the status of OD came up after the recent round of lay-offs at Microsoft. The company, however, confirmed that OD is being worked on by Kojima Productions and Xbox, and that this collaboration is still ongoing.
OD was announced all the way back in 2022, and will star Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier.
