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Trapped in zombie-stricken Harran, an agent races across rooftops, scavenges supplies, crafts weapons, and faces deadly nights.
Released 26 Jan 2015
Race Across Rooftops
Escape Night Predators
Craft Modified Weapons
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Developed by Techland · Published by Techland
You play an agent sent on a secret mission in quarantined Harran, a city devastated by a zombie outbreak. As the mission unfolds, you encounter survivors and face choices involving your orders and their safety.
Explore the city by climbing buildings, leaping between rooftops, and using parkour to cross streets and reach remote areas. Search for supplies, take on story and side missions, and fight infected with melee weapons, firearms, abilities, and crafted weapon modifications.
The day-and-night cycle changes how you navigate the city: daylight offers time to explore and gather supplies, while nighttime brings more dangerous infected and high-risk pursuits. Develop your character’s skills as you play, and team up with up to three other players in co-op for campaign missions.
In the supplied reviews, players often praise the fluid rooftop parkour, tense nighttime pursuits, and the way exploration, combat, and crafting work together. Co-op with friends is also a recurring source of enjoyment. Some players find the main story less compelling than the gameplay, while others criticize repetitive side activities, a difficult early game, or occasional performance problems.
IMPORTANT: Enjoy enhanced visuals, a remastered soundtrack, and graphical improvements with the Retouched Update — available for free to all Dying Light owners.
Dying Light Essentials Edition contains:
Dying Light (base game)
The Bozak Horde DLC
Cuisine & Cargo DLC
Ultimate Survivor Bundle
5th Anniversary Bundle
10th Anniversary Bundle
Harran Ranger Bundle
Gun Psycho Bundle
Volatile Hunter Bundle
Retrowave Bundle
Shu Warrior Bundle
From the creators of hit titles Dead Island and Call of Juarez. Winner of over 50 industry awards and nominations. The game whose uncompromising approach to gameplay set new standards for first-person zombie games. Thanks to its legacy and seven-year post-launch support, today it goes down in history as one of gaming's greatest zombie titles.
Survive in a city beset by a zombie virus! Discover the hard choice you will have to make on your secret mission. Will loyalty to your superiors prove stronger than the will to save the survivors? The choice is yours…
VAST OPEN WORLD
Roam the city with unprecedented freedom and bask in its unique atmosphere. Use parkour to scale every building and reach remote areas.
CREATIVE COMBAT
Engage in gory combat and discover limitless options to confront your enemies. Use the environment paired with various weapon types and abilities to gain an advantage.
DAY AND NIGHT CYCLE
Experience the dramatic shift in the world, as you change from a hunter to hunted at sundown. Face the coming threat or run away without wasting your time to look behind.
4-PLAYER CO-OP
Join forces with other players and raise your chances of survival in an exciting co-op mode. Tackle the story campaign together and see how far you'll go as a team.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 78 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Dying Light supports single-player and online multiplayer. The campaign is playable online in co-op with up to 4 players total. It also has online PvP, including an invasion-style mode where one player controls a powerful zombie against 1-4 human survivors. Reviews indicate players can join friends' sessions easily, and some describe it as drop-in/drop-out. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop and a level editor are listed, but the provided information does not confirm multiplayer-specific mod support. Multiple reviews report modded weapons, cheating, and hacked items affecting co-op and PvP sessions. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 38 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 87/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
