While walking through America in Death Stranding isn't the most interesting example of time travel in the game, the world itself is beautiful and complex. When you start Death Stranding, you'll be fumbling over every rock and tree root in your path, and eventually, you'll be able to build infrastructure both in your own game and in other players'.

Death Stranding's maps show a world that can evolve and improve, and because of its abundance of detail, it's a memorable example of open-world exploration that's far more complicated than hopping from checkpoint to checkpoint on a horse.