THE SIX STRANGEST GAMES HIDEO KOJIMA EVER MADE

Death Stranding 2 is out soon but Hideo Kojima’s gameography is full of weird games, from Penguin Adventure to a stock market simulator.

It would be reductive to describe Hideo Kojima’s video games simply as weird, but it’s the obvious place to start. He’s very much aware of how they come across, and plays up to the commentary about them, to the point where he was worried the upcoming Death Stranding 2 wasn’t divisive enough.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, the sequel to the original 2019 hit, promises to be another bizarre experience, with a stop-motion animated puppet as part of its main cast, a villain wielding an electric guitar as a weapon, and a very blatant stand-in for Solid Snake from the Metal Gear games.

With the sequel’s launch right around the corner, we wanted to look back through Kojima’s gameography and highlight the ones that stand out as the weirdest of the lot.

Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand (2003)

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2025-06-19T16:27:51Z