At first glance, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Death Stranding could not seem any more different. The former is an epic historical fiction RPG entrenched in traditional open-world game design, while the latter is a cerebral, absurd science-fiction adventure about delivering packages in a post-apocalyptic world. These truths are undeniable, but the two have a bit more in common, both spiritually and mechanically, than one might first assume.