10 Best Multiplayer Modes of All Time

Though the core of Hideo Kojima's mesmerising Death Stranding is rooted firmly in its single-player experience, it nevertheless boasts one of the most unexpected and innovative multiplayer modes of the past decade.

While players will spend most of the game traipsing across a post-apocalyptic United States solo - save for their precious BB, of course - its Social Strand System allows for players to interact with others in a wholly unique way.

While you can't directly encounter other couriers, you are able to leave supplies, structures like ladders and bridges, and messages for them to find, and to the same token you can stumble across the very same. You can also leave likes for items or messages which proved helpful to you.

It's an ingenious way to make Death Stranding's barren world feel more "alive" without resorting to a more overt and potentially messy multiplayer integration. 

In a game that's all about uniting what remains of society, such a system couldn't feel more apt.