Dying Light
Dying Light is a first-person, action survival horror game set in a vast and dangerous open world. During the day, players traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the…
Dying Light is an adventure developed by Techland, released 26 January 2015 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 28.6 hrs to finish.
What Dying Light is
Dying Light is an adventure game developed by Techland and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Chrome Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the city of Harran, a mysterious viral outbreak has turned most of the population into hyper-aggressive zombie-like creatures, forcing Harran's Defense Ministry to quarantine the entire city. The Global Relief Effort (GRE) assists survivors still trapped in the city by regularly airdropping supplies. The GRE hires Kyle Crane to infiltrate Harran in order to retrieve a sensitive file stolen from them by Kadir Suleiman, which he is using as leverage to blackmail them, with the threat of publicizing it if anything were to happen to him. Crane is airdropped into Harran, where he is ambushed by a gang of hostile bandits. As the infected attack, Crane is bitten and infected, but rescued by…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 78 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Dying Light series
Dying Light is the first of 10 entries we hold in the Dying Light series. The next entry was Dying Light: Enhanced Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 72 is 8 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition at 89.
How it was received
Dying Light holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 1,080 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 28.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 45.9 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-2500 @3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @3.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM DDR3 and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 / AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 (1GB VRAM). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 40GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dying Light launched on 26 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Resident Evil HD Remaster and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Resident Evil HD Remaster, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dying Light yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Characters
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Dlc
Dying Light: Cuisine & Cargo
Dying Light: Be the Zombie
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Dying Light: Bozak Horde
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Dying Light: The Following
Dying Light: Vintage Gunslinger Bundle
Dying Light: White Death Bundle
Dying Light: Bad Blood
Dying Light: Rais Elite Bundle
Dying Light: Godfather Bundle
Dying Light: Harran Inmate Bundle
Dying Light: Retrowave Bundle
Dying Light: Shu Warrior Bundle
Dying Light: 5th Anniversary Bundle
Dying Light: Unturned Weapon Pack
Dying Light: Volkan Combat Armor Bundle
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Dying Light: Hellraid
Dying Light: Classified Operation Bundle
Dying Light: Ox Warrior Bundle
Dying Light: Viking - Raiders of Harran Bundle
Dying Light: Rust Weapon Pack
Dying Light: Savvy Gamer Bundle
Astronaut Bundle
Van Crane Bundle
Dying Light: Snow Ops Bundle
Dying Light: Dieselpunk Bundle
Dying Light: 10th Anniversary Bundle
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