Dying Light: The Beast 2025

About

On Steam, 87% of 61,336 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 3,358 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 4,654 in the last 30 days. It is Verified on Steam Deck. The main story takes about 12 hours, doing everything about 18 hours.

Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land is a new enhanced version of the game that includes the base game, all previously released updates and the premiere Restored Land content in one package. This includes Legend Levels, New Game+, Ray Tracing, Nightmare Mode, dozens of new brutal finishers, hundreds of parkour and gameplay improvements, and numerous visual and audio enhancements - delivering new ways to experience the apocalypse.

Story

You are Kyle Crane, the man whose selflessness during the initial virus outbreak saved many from a fate worse than death. After more than a decade in captivity, you find yourself in a world that’s changed, and not for the better. Now, you’ll need to use the survival skills that kept you alive all those years ago to save even more innocent lives.

What is happening now

Dying Light: The Beast is an action-adventure shooter launching September 18, 2025, exclusively on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X. The game marks a departure from the original's broader platform support, as developer Techland has canceled planned PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, citing hardware limitations of the 13-year-old systems. According to the studio, the experience's core design fundamentally requires processing power and memory that previous-generation consoles cannot provide. While framed as a necessity rather than a strategic choice, the cancellation disappointed some fans expecting legacy console ports. On the technical side, compatibility layers like DXVK have already begun receiving updates to improve performance on Linux and SteamOS.