Death Stranding (Songs From The Video Game)

Death Stranding (Songs From the Video Game) is the companion song collection to Hideo Kojima’s 2019 game, distinct from Ludvig Forssell’s score album. Released in 2020, it gathers 22 vocal tracks used throughout the game’s isolated, rain-soaked journey across a fractured America. The selection is dominated by Icelandic-American project Low Roar, whose hushed vocals, delicate electronics, and melancholy dream-pop provide much of the game’s emotional atmosphere; songs such as “Don’t Be So Serious,” “Easy Way Out,” “Once in a Long, Long While,” “Give Up,” and “I’ll Keep Coming” transform exploration into something contemplative, lonely, and quietly hopeful.

The compilation broadens that mood with two spacious electronic pieces by Silent Poets—“Asylums for the Feeling,” featuring Leila Adu, and “Almost Nothing,” featuring Okay Kaya—as well as CHVRCHES’ soaring synth-pop title song and Apocalyptica’s cello-driven “Path.” Rather than functioning like a conventional action-game soundtrack, the album favors atmosphere, emotional distance, and gradual release: ambient space, intimate voices, restrained beats, and melodies that feel both futuristic and elegiac. It is an especially cohesive various-artists set because every contribution reinforces Death Stranding’s central themes of separation, endurance, connection, and finding human warmth in an inhospitable world.