There's no need to wait for Death Stranding on PC to play a game about lugging heavy objects around and falling over.
Steam users are clamoring to download Walking Simulator, a free-to-play love letter and/or damning indictment of Kojima Productions' latest creation. While it's still in beta, you can already play through a series of missions that set you tromping across post-apocalyptic Antarctica to make deliveries. They say it's post-apocalyptic anyway, it mostly just looks like Antarctica.
Just like in Death Stranding, you start out by strapping items to your back and making your way in the world on foot. Eventually you collect enough "Likes" to purchase handy vehicles like a jetpack or a flatbed truck. There's none of that wishy washy infrastructure creation here: you'll drive that truck straight across the Antarctic ice fields like the grizzled ice road trucker you were born to be.
You'll also fall down and ragdoll a lot. But enough of my assessment, here are some of the glowing reviews from the Steam community:
"I like the part where you walk." - PerhapsYaBoi
"pretty good substitute for death stranding assuming that death stranding is the same it just costs 40-70 dollars more than this" - Bad Time Tim
"you can run" - Miyagi
The Death Stranding PC release date has been delayed, so you'll have some extra time to wander Antarctica in Walking Simulator.
