Kojima Productions has announced a surprise Death Stranding Xbox port is now available today, ending the game’s console exclusivity to PlayStation.

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is now available for Xbox Series X and S via the Microsoft Store, and is currently 50% off. The game also got a port for the Amazon Luna cloud streaming platform.

Kojima Productions also announced it now has full ownership of the Death Stranding trademark, where Sony originally owned it. This means they can release its coming sequel, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, day and date with its PS5 release in 2025, for PC and Xbox.

Death Stranding was originally released for PlayStation 4 back in 2019 and got a Windows (via Steam) release a year later in 2020. It was then ported to PS5 in 2021 and Apple devices in January 2024.

Here’s a rundown on the game:

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT.

In the future, a mysterious event known as the Death Stranding has opened a doorway between the living and the dead, leading to grotesque creatures from the afterlife roaming the fallen world marred by a desolate society.

As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America.

Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT on Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC includes HIGH FRAME RATE, PHOTO MODE and ULTRA-WIDE MONITOR SUPPORT. Also includes cross-over content from Valve Corporation’s HALF-LIFE series and CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. Stay connected with players around the globe with the Social Strand System™.