Dying Light

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2268 Ratings

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  1. Avadon
    Jan 27, 2015
    0
    My 15 minute long experience with Dying Light:

    Long cutscene. Character wakes up. Immediately notice a HORRENDOUS film grain effect that makes it look like you're playing the game on a monitor with 5000 green dead pixels. Look through the options menu. Find NO WAY to turn it off. Oh...wow. Move. My sprint key is disabled because the game thinks it will be too much information for the    My 15 minute long experience with Dying Light:

    Long cutscene. Character wakes up. Immediately notice a HORRENDOUS film grain effect that makes it look like you're playing the game on a monitor with 5000 green dead pixels. Look through the options menu. Find NO WAY to turn it off. Oh...wow. Move. My sprint key is disabled because the game thinks it will be too much information for the player at the start of the game to be able to sprint. So I have to VEEEEERY slowly shuffle around a multi story office building and talk to some dudes. Cutscene. Get mission to save a guy that is trapped on the 13th floor, and noone else dares to go up there because apparently it's a slaughter. Very slowly make my way up because sprint doesn't work. The horrible danger and slaughter that made everyone not even bother to go up turns out to be ONE zombie. I hit it on the head once and it dies. The game now informs me that my sprint key is Shift. I hit Escape and look through the options menu once more, because I find the game unplayable with the film grain effect. It's like the one in Alien Isolation, only 5 times more annoying. Nope, still can't find a way to turn it off. I craft a medikit and patch up the guy on the 13th floor. Cutscene. During the cutscene, the game crashes to desktop. I launch CCleaner and uninstall.    … Expand
  2. lesiuML
    Mar 3, 2022
    4
    I watched countless reviews before purchasing dying light... Every recent review was optimistic and almost everyone was shure that game aged pretty well. But in my opinion this game is very bad... Plot of the main story is kinda interesting but the gameplay, dialogs and cut scenes are so poor and badly designed... I couldn't even stand any side mission... I loved first mirrors edge gameI watched countless reviews before purchasing dying light... Every recent review was optimistic and almost everyone was shure that game aged pretty well. But in my opinion this game is very bad... Plot of the main story is kinda interesting but the gameplay, dialogs and cut scenes are so poor and badly designed... I couldn't even stand any side mission... I loved first mirrors edge game and I thought dying light would be similar... But it is not. And why the hell in game about free running there is so much tunnels and underground missions that are so freaking boring!... Gameplay itself boring and very repetitive same as missions and locations! Be prepared to do exact same missions as blowing up the building or finding missing access cards but in different areas. First 3 hours were fun, but after first sight I started to see bigger picture. If you thing you like parkour and zombies then head without any doubts straight to dying light 2 it's more modern and better designed overall. This game does not aged well at all. Complete waste of time...… Expand
  3. Rushrush2meyayo
    Apr 4, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What I liked:
    - You are Spiderman's protege, complete with a web shooter, spider sense, over the top parkour and climbing abilities
    - Noise attracts the dead!

    What I disliked:
    - Water, guts, the sun, and other effects gets into your eyes. At least learn to wipe the first 2 off.
    - Glasses don't break, like car windows
    - The dust? particles flying in the air
    - The seizures, oh god not now...
    - Not enough variety with the zombie models, very noticeable since it's a first person game
    - Lots of swimming, switches to flip and generally uninteresting fetch quests
    - Clunky melee combat
    - Guns for the most part are useless, silenced versions would have been fun
    - Cheap deaths from exploding zombies
    - What a finale to make you climb the top of the world for a QTE boss fight.

    Parkour, First person melee combat, a bit of FPS, a bit of stealth, Crafting and random loot system, and all star zombie casts are here (slow, fast, exploding, spitting, etc.). This is a fun game during the early hours but gets repetitive and cumbersome in the long run. I'll just play pepsi man if I want to run for my life, the Mosou series if i want to hack and slash repetitively, and Dead Rising for a satisfying zombie apocalypse experience.    … Expand
  4. Boris
    Feb 22, 2015
    4
    This game got an overwhelming number of positive reviews, be it here or on the Steam review system. And it's understandable, the game looks incredibly awesome.

    But I would rather look past that. The main two reasons why I rate this game at four is that firstly, it's a console game for PCs, and secondly, I didn't have that much fun playing it. Sure, it looks gorgeous, but that's about    This game got an overwhelming number of positive reviews, be it here or on the Steam review system. And it's understandable, the game looks incredibly awesome.

    But I would rather look past that. The main two reasons why I rate this game at four is that firstly, it's a console game for PCs, and secondly, I didn't have that much fun playing it. Sure, it looks gorgeous, but that's about it.

    And the more I think of it, the more I consider that my two main concerns about the game are just one: I tend to hate all console games for PC on sight, sure; but there's nothing such as a "console game for PC label" that would draw me into hating them before recognizing what they are.

    So why on earth is it a console game for PC? Well, here are my reasons:

    - The interface is optimized for consoles. Like in the vast majority of recent titles, you don't select your weapons/items with multiple keys as in PC games, but with multiple hits (or by pressing that button and selecting the items in a "selection wheel") to one key, as in console games.
    - The gameplay is for consoles too: with the exception of the mouse look, everything plays better with a controller.
    - The linearity of the game is depressing; I have not been offered a single choice so far. This game is an interactive movie for your living room, not a dynamic and fun game for your PC.

    Bottom line: get this game for your playstation/xbox/whatever, but if you're searching for a good PC game to (re)play, head for things like good ol' L4D or S.T.A.L.K.E.R, or Metro 2033; and sequels.    … Expand
  5. KevinCam
    Jan 27, 2015
    1
    10/10 for the tutorial. When you leave to go outside, you cant do much with all the lag. Game is unplayable 0/10. I will give it a 1 just for a great tutorial experience.
  6. RommoR
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Dying Light, the grainy mud filter is the worst affront to your eye's rather than the rotting fleshing of the same 6 zombies you will be fighting as a standard enemy.

    This game run horribly on most systems, with constant stuttering and choking on the most random of things, lowering setting which shouldn't need to be lowered will make it run "smoother", other than this people had touting    Dying Light, the grainy mud filter is the worst affront to your eye's rather than the rotting fleshing of the same 6 zombies you will be fighting as a standard enemy.

    This game run horribly on most systems, with constant stuttering and choking on the most random of things, lowering setting which shouldn't need to be lowered will make it run "smoother", other than this people had touting this game as fun, after 5 Hours straight I'm still searching for it,

    Problems with this game range from boring generic mash Mouse1 to kill, with enemies dodging and blocking purely at random with no sense of why they do so, having fought virals some will just spam back dodge when your attacking others will let you wail on them till their a pulp, humans are worse because they block by holding their weapon 6 inches from their face and if you attack you just aimless strike their weapon like a cat playing with a toy even if you aren't aiming at this rather absurd attempt to parry your strikes.

    Climbing & Vaulting which they call Parkour seems interesting but gets old very fast with the exact same animation playing over and over with random nonsensical limitations on what you can climb jump and reach, don't expect something smooth and free flowing its far from that imagine having the ledges from Far cry 4 everywhere with the same sort of animation following every time you clamber over anything.

    The story is more laughable with plot points ranging from, meet the mentally challenged psycho wannabe living with his mother who is a pillow and a bucket and then onwards and upwards to one of the Survivors leaders trying to take a "Nest" out by using explosives but rather than reaching there he gets trapped inside a train where knowing he has no way out on his own decides to arm the bomb anyway. . . Why well screw you that's why I don't have to explain myself to you. . .

    It has the same old tired Dead Island talent tree split into 3 specs sort of like Dead Island originally had but each effect your 3 main stats, Survivor skill, Agility skill and Power skill, there is nothing new or unique about the system it just feels like a addon put there just to try and add some re-playability.

    Loot and crafting again just direct copy of Dead Island again with same pointless things, like when crafting a mod with your own material you still have to pay cash, even though its you doing it with your own items, my current theory is that the character is eating the cash in hopes that it will stave off the zombie infection/ Rabies virus pumping through his veins.

    Night time, you remember the video trailer of the Hunters and Night time, the fear of the character as he rushes through the streets hoping he is dodging them and making it to safety the rush and thrill of been truly outmatched and running for dear life, well its not in the game rather at night time the hunters come out to play but are thwarted with the fact you have not only a Mini-map showing you where to go but, it tells you where those hunters are and what way they are facing with a Metal Gear solid style cone of vision, you simply walk the entire way back just avoiding them by walking just past their sight range hell you can even stop and shine your flashlight at the light sensitive zombies and they don't flinch as long as they haven't spotted you.

    A lot of little QTE's litter the game and we have the same old Lock picking system of Elder Scrolls series it seems like a random assortment of broke and hated ideas from other more popular games shoved into another generic cash grab zombie game and hope that people don't notice it.

    Save yourself the money sadly it was a lot of hype and what we got was a buggy, poorly optimized game with, shoddy plot and characters, with the most basic and tedious of gameplay, with very little redeeming features when the charm runs out.    … Expand
  7. TheTownDrunk
    Mar 1, 2021
    2
    Do we really need another zombie first person shooter? No. Well, let's add parkour and wild acrobatics! No. Just no!
    DYING LIGHT is just another lazy console to PC port. It's got hordes of zombies to kill with melee or ranged weapons. Nothing we haven't seen or done a gazillion times before.
    They added a ridiculous parkour system so you can go to the quest marker and press "E" at the    Do we really need another zombie first person shooter? No. Well, let's add parkour and wild acrobatics! No. Just no!
    DYING LIGHT is just another lazy console to PC port. It's got hordes of zombies to kill with melee or ranged weapons. Nothing we haven't seen or done a gazillion times before.
    They added a ridiculous parkour system so you can go to the quest marker and press "E" at the location it sends you to so you can go back to X and press "E" to talk to the person who sent you there to end that "quest" and get another "go-to-X-and-press-E-" quest. Don't forget to pick up some firecrackers to distract the zombies. Yeah, someone's literally blocking the exit until you pick them up so you won't forget them. Hand holding at its finest.
    Oh! And they're making a SEQUEL! Seriously?! Who plays this garbage?!    … Expand
  8. breathfan
    Feb 20, 2015
    0
    Extremely bad game. Stay away. It has it's good sides. It could be really really good. But it is not. It is awful. I hate it. I hate wasting my time with it. I rly do.
  9. Ubir
    Feb 2, 2015
    4
    Another generic and obviously flawed zombie game. First things first, I like how the story is set in a country where things have gone to **** rather than the standard "end of the world" scenario. Feels like you are on a humanitarian mission of sorts. But this is where the creativity stopped, a very very predictable zombie/survival fps with boring straight forward stereotypical characters,Another generic and obviously flawed zombie game. First things first, I like how the story is set in a country where things have gone to **** rather than the standard "end of the world" scenario. Feels like you are on a humanitarian mission of sorts. But this is where the creativity stopped, a very very predictable zombie/survival fps with boring straight forward stereotypical characters, put in an over the top envoirement that doesnt even beggin to make up for the many flaws of the game.

    Now to the performance my 4GB R9 290x 1150mhz runs BF4 in ultra with more than 100 fps. However, in Dying Light (Which isnt at all better looking from my point of view) I have around 30-40 fps most of the time on medium settings in 1080p it seems as though the deadlines were coming up too quick and they just had to put the game out without proper testing.

    All in all: A good looking game with bad characters, bad plot, bad performance in an overused and kind of tired genre. 4/10    … Expand
  10. Ted_Tris
    Jan 31, 2015
    1
    Simply crap.
    Pros: nice music while loading screen
    Cons:
    Sometimes boring, sometimes frustrating hard.
    Hopping on the roofs is boring after a hour of game.
    Terrible hardware requirements but not fine gfx.
    Bad face setup on all characters.
    Only crap weapons

    Not good game.
  11. Plutarco
    Feb 9, 2015
    1
    After three hours with sticks and pipes as the only available weapons and jumping from roof to roof, I got bored, simply bored. The graphic requirements are abusive, however I managed to play it because my PC is somehow updated, but only to find out that this game has a very poor story and it´s just an insulting cheap copy of the TV show The Walking Dead. . NO WAY...IT'S MONOTONOUS ANDAfter three hours with sticks and pipes as the only available weapons and jumping from roof to roof, I got bored, simply bored. The graphic requirements are abusive, however I managed to play it because my PC is somehow updated, but only to find out that this game has a very poor story and it´s just an insulting cheap copy of the TV show The Walking Dead. . NO WAY...IT'S MONOTONOUS AND BOOOOOOORING.… Expand
  12. Optimization
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Yet again, a poorly optimized game by Techland. This game has major performance problems, and is unplayable. After the tutorial and you're exposed to the open world, the fps drops and there is major stuttering when moving & turning side to side. After five minutes of being in-game, after the tutorial that is, the game crashes and an error comes up: "ResizeBuffers failed 0x887a0005" withYet again, a poorly optimized game by Techland. This game has major performance problems, and is unplayable. After the tutorial and you're exposed to the open world, the fps drops and there is major stuttering when moving & turning side to side. After five minutes of being in-game, after the tutorial that is, the game crashes and an error comes up: "ResizeBuffers failed 0x887a0005" with the title of the error called "CrashExit..." Techland do not know how to optimize a game properly, proof from past games they've made. Such as dead island, dead island riptide etc.

    My PC specifications:

    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz
    Game installed on 1TB HDD
    Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC    … Expand
  13. enut_butter
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Terribly optimized, mediocre zombie game.

    What else is there to say? I should have known not to waste my money with this developer, but I thought I would give it a shot. Needless to say, I want my money back.
  14. webext
    Jan 29, 2020
    0
    It's a trash game. Can't understand how You can play this. So repetitive, old curved mechanics. It's like Mirrors Edge, but worse. It's like Last of us, but much much worse and so on
  15. oohlala
    Feb 18, 2015
    0
    I absolutely love open world games and this game was fun at first, then you realize it's full of **** The four main things that made me quit and uninstall this game are:
    1. Zombies just popping up behind me on a roof with no notice, no sounds at all, until they start hitting me
    2. Human opponents dodging and blocking EVERY **** ATTACK. 3. Not being able to find the **** zombie that's    I absolutely love open world games and this game was fun at first, then you realize it's full of **** The four main things that made me quit and uninstall this game are:
    1. Zombies just popping up behind me on a roof with no notice, no sounds at all, until they start hitting me
    2. Human opponents dodging and blocking EVERY **** ATTACK.
    3. Not being able to find the **** zombie that's spitting and poisoning me.
    4. The poor performance of the game even with a very high end computer.

    I will never buy another game from this company. Save your money. Don't make the same mistake I did.    … Expand
  16. PashaAlex
    Jan 28, 2015
    4
    Boring, unpleasant to eyes (because of the filter), game not gory at all, parkour is buggy, optimization sometimes is awful... and loading screen is just ridiculous. I don't know about story, but something tells me it's nothing special, we have stupidest hero, who can only kill, jump, listen to orders. Haven't seen any good characters, all of them are stereotypical and not interesting.Boring, unpleasant to eyes (because of the filter), game not gory at all, parkour is buggy, optimization sometimes is awful... and loading screen is just ridiculous. I don't know about story, but something tells me it's nothing special, we have stupidest hero, who can only kill, jump, listen to orders. Haven't seen any good characters, all of them are stereotypical and not interesting.

    It's hybrid of Dead Island and Mirror's Edge on another island, but without FUN.    … Expand
  17. dulifuli69
    Jan 28, 2015
    1
    Aside from the things others have said, I still can't believe that the main character, who is a special forces guy of some sort, who can instantly parkour and stuff still does not have the stamina to wave a freakin gas pipe 4 times. Totally ridiculous. And to go further a simple iron pipe goes wreck on zombies' heads. Seriously what the damn hell goes wrong about a simple iron pipe???Aside from the things others have said, I still can't believe that the main character, who is a special forces guy of some sort, who can instantly parkour and stuff still does not have the stamina to wave a freakin gas pipe 4 times. Totally ridiculous. And to go further a simple iron pipe goes wreck on zombies' heads. Seriously what the damn hell goes wrong about a simple iron pipe???

    This game gets 1 from me, since people have worked with it, so deserves more than zero.    … Expand
  18. Ansatsu83
    Feb 12, 2015
    4
    This game has some good elements to it, unfortunately it is beyond poorly optimized and definitely feels like a console port. If you are running an ATI GPU then stay away from this as even the best ati cards are getting piss poor frame rates.

    The developers are not known to optimize their games, properly, and this is worse than dead islands optimization. On top of this, the game really    This game has some good elements to it, unfortunately it is beyond poorly optimized and definitely feels like a console port. If you are running an ATI GPU then stay away from this as even the best ati cards are getting piss poor frame rates.

    The developers are not known to optimize their games, properly, and this is worse than dead islands optimization. On top of this, the game really does feel like a more-urban version of dead island, so it doesn't bring too much new, to the table, unfortunately. I cannot give this game anything above a 4, as a result of the poor optimization and recycled gameplay from the companies previous games... Sorry its just not that good, its average at best.    … Expand
  19. Griaule
    Dec 23, 2016
    1
    Bought the game 2 years after it's release. I do this with most of the game because I hope they fix the bugs by then. BUT AFTER 2 YEARS THIS GAME IS STILL FULL OF BUGS. Zombies spawns in front of you, zombies randomly explode, if a zombie hits the GROUND metres away of an exploding barrel, it explodes, supply drops suddenly disappear, zombies immune to items/perks they shouldn't... And theBought the game 2 years after it's release. I do this with most of the game because I hope they fix the bugs by then. BUT AFTER 2 YEARS THIS GAME IS STILL FULL OF BUGS. Zombies spawns in front of you, zombies randomly explode, if a zombie hits the GROUND metres away of an exploding barrel, it explodes, supply drops suddenly disappear, zombies immune to items/perks they shouldn't... And the end... This game doesn't really have an ending. I don't know how others rated this 6 or higher they must be completely blind or just some casuals new to gaming.… Expand
  20. Koreenium
    Feb 1, 2015
    4
    Game itself is overall good and I really love some of the music.

    But I absolutely HATE how another terribly optimized game got released to the PC. Having an AMD card means that you will have to play this game not only on low graphics but also with terribly low fps. And no, most badass and powerful AMD card will not save you. Only Nvidia card owners can get ok to playable fps. For    Game itself is overall good and I really love some of the music.

    But I absolutely HATE how another terribly optimized game got released to the PC. Having an AMD card means that you will have to play this game not only on low graphics but also with terribly low fps. And no, most badass and powerful AMD card will not save you. Only Nvidia card owners can get ok to playable fps.

    For example I get 20-30 fps outside with the lowest settings possible. This is unplayable for me considered that most part the game is rather fast-paced and the terribly low fps starts to irritate my eyes. Luckily they added FoV option because the normal FoV was absolute ****
    Sad part is that my PC is by no means bad. I can run most of the modern high end games with 40-60 fps on max settings.

    My PC:
    i5 3570k
    AMD 6950 OC
    8gb DDR3

    If only the game ran well I would give it 8/10...    … Expand
  21. nono5551212
    Feb 6, 2015
    2
    Pros: A good trailer, Voice Acting, Graphics

    Cons: Terrible Controls, Horrible Game play, Slow Downs, Bad level Design, Impair your vision throughout the game. Pacing.

    When I saw the trailer to this game I was excited... But it did not live up to my expectations. This game seriously stinks... It was not fun at all.
  22. Type4101
    Feb 3, 2015
    4
    Half-hearted single player detracts from this otherwise solid survival horror game. This is pretty much a forced co-op game, and really isn't designed to be enjoyed alone, making the solo experience feel ignored. This is a shame, since survival horror is best enjoyed alone. When you play co-op, the experience is much more like a shooter (with fewer guns), and the seriousness and tensionHalf-hearted single player detracts from this otherwise solid survival horror game. This is pretty much a forced co-op game, and really isn't designed to be enjoyed alone, making the solo experience feel ignored. This is a shame, since survival horror is best enjoyed alone. When you play co-op, the experience is much more like a shooter (with fewer guns), and the seriousness and tension are gone. Much like Left4Dead, the game is mechanically solid, but should never call itself both multiplayer and single player....it feels like the developers just say single-player to get people like me to buy (I regret the purchase, not because the game is bad, but because it is not designed with solo players in mind at all).
    Multiplayer score: 7.5/10
    Single player experience: 4/10    … Expand
  23. jseph1234
    Aug 17, 2017
    4
    A EXTREMELY Linear game that is all about doing a bunch of Assassin's Creed jumps with the most unrealistic jumping physics I have ever seen. Super easy and just not worth $10, much less the $60.00 they want for jump-fest, same choices movie/game!
  24. scotto808
    Feb 3, 2015
    3
    Where to begin, All these positive reviews are so excited about the graphics, the mechanics, etc.
    High detail does not make a game. This game had poor voice acting, mentally handicapped npc's (and not just gazi, all of them), a story so boring that when i reached the finale i thought, oh im at the end...
    While they got the free running and graphics sorted the lacked in almost every other    Where to begin, All these positive reviews are so excited about the graphics, the mechanics, etc.
    High detail does not make a game. This game had poor voice acting, mentally handicapped npc's (and not just gazi, all of them), a story so boring that when i reached the finale i thought, oh im at the end...
    While they got the free running and graphics sorted the lacked in almost every other area, the combat is similar to that of dead island, however i felt it was less controlled with no choice of directional swings. the crafting was quite average, i found many blueprints yet i only had a few basic ones that could do any weapon and then like 5-10 very very specific blueprints, dead island weapon modding is boundless. Every character looked like they were about to do a photoshoot, Its a zombie apocolapse, why does everyone have styled hair, outfits with pointless accessories and just overall no purpose. There are more vendors than regular survivors in this games aswell.
    Overall is a poorly thought out game
    TL;DR

    +Graphics
    +Parkour
    **** npc's
    **** Story
    **** side quests
    - Average weapon arsenal
    -bad modding
    -stupid zombies
    -Antizin timers made no sense    … Expand
  25. Kilasa
    Feb 6, 2015
    4
    Game had fps issue, I play on minimal setting with a decent computer but still felt like I had fps dropping to 15 every few minute. Game is fun but after awhile it gets boring. Zombies are endless and endlessly killing them eventually lose the fun. Crafting is too dull, many of the upgrade you can craft is the same and there isn't much point to craft some of things like flammable liquidGame had fps issue, I play on minimal setting with a decent computer but still felt like I had fps dropping to 15 every few minute. Game is fun but after awhile it gets boring. Zombies are endless and endlessly killing them eventually lose the fun. Crafting is too dull, many of the upgrade you can craft is the same and there isn't much point to craft some of things like flammable liquid since it too weak. No fast travel made traveling annoying as hell after awhile I felt like I am running for errand more than playing.

    The good thing is that the antagonist had a interesting personality, such as Rais had a very bad ass personality.

    It not for the fact that the game had fps issue I will give it a 7.    … Expand
  26. loguerto
    Feb 14, 2015
    1
    I have spent my money and found out that the game is unplayable, i have a fx 8350, r9 290 and i play it between 15/30fps. Horrible experience, optimize it please so that i can play it and make a proper review.
  27. Captn_wanc
    Jan 29, 2015
    4
    The game is looking great,and the story seems fine just right about until you finish training and go out for run.Then game becomes unplayable even with nice rig,not only that even that beautiful picture kinda fade away...Zombies are looking all the same with same face expression.I`m not fan or middle eastern chracters in game.Even with awsome game optimazation still wouldn`t play game.niceThe game is looking great,and the story seems fine just right about until you finish training and go out for run.Then game becomes unplayable even with nice rig,not only that even that beautiful picture kinda fade away...Zombies are looking all the same with same face expression.I`m not fan or middle eastern chracters in game.Even with awsome game optimazation still wouldn`t play game.nice try on beginning tho… Expand
  28. Alcalientre
    Jan 28, 2015
    3
    1) Weird film grain effect for no reason, can't be turned off.

    2) Save system makes certain boss battles anti-clamactic, instead of starting over from a save with medkits still if you die, you don't keep your medkits and somehow you have come back to life but enemies involved in the fight haven't, so it's easier. I died three times in one fight before beating it because I suck, instead    1) Weird film grain effect for no reason, can't be turned off.

    2) Save system makes certain boss battles anti-clamactic, instead of starting over from a save with medkits still if you die, you don't keep your medkits and somehow you have come back to life but enemies involved in the fight haven't, so it's easier. I died three times in one fight before beating it because I suck, instead of letting me get better and actually get satisfaction, the enemies kept the damage I had dealt so the last time I ran in I only had to hit the one guy left alive once to end it. Stupid stupid stupid.

    3) Parkour phsyics is not very fluid to me. You can make jumps that, visually you seem like you shouldn't be able to. You can't climb onto overhanging ledges above you. You can't actually sprint, there's only walking and "sprinting" which is just running. You can't slide under obstacles or wall run like Mirror's Edge, or else you have to level up a bunch first. The game would be better if all of that fluidity was just given to you in the prologue. If that means you can't have a bunch of trivial reward levels to engage players with and you actually have to write a good story, too bad.

    4) Story disappoints. No explanation for why they are sending you out to do these critical missions from the beginning and not the people they already have trained with better equipment. If you are doing a super critical mission why can't you have the baseball bat that some dude in HQ is just sitting around with. Stupid. Just standard "you're the video game hero so here do all the most important things from the beginning" with an absolute minimum of story to explain.

    Just a bad mashup of Assasin's Creed, Mirror's Edge, and Zombie games that doesn't do any particular thing well.    … Expand
  29. billay
    Jan 29, 2015
    2
    I was hoping for more graphics wise. Maybe since game is only 11gb they cut down on texture size. Everything seems washed out and needs more colour saturation. Character models look really dated too, especially when compared to games like cod aw.
  30. 1stBoTToX
    Mar 6, 2015
    3
    Tant qu'il n'y aura pas d'option pour désactiver ces PU.... d'aberrations chromatique je ne recommanderai pas ce jeu, en effet cette saloperie ruine totalement le jeu. Mais qu'est ce que c'est que ces devs qui ajoutent des effets pareilles, ils ne se rendent pas compte que ca pourri completement le jeu ?!?!
    De plus, ils ne tiennent absolument pas compte (comme c'est étonnant) des avis des    Tant qu'il n'y aura pas d'option pour désactiver ces PU.... d'aberrations chromatique je ne recommanderai pas ce jeu, en effet cette saloperie ruine totalement le jeu. Mais qu'est ce que c'est que ces devs qui ajoutent des effets pareilles, ils ne se rendent pas compte que ca pourri completement le jeu ?!?!
    De plus, ils ne tiennent absolument pas compte (comme c'est étonnant) des avis des joueurs qui réclament depuis la sortie du jeu le retrait de cette merde.
    Bref, a moins que vous aimiez les jeux vomitifs, avec des graphismes net qu'au centre de l'écran et tout le reste flou avec des textures qui gerbent dans tous les sens, je vous déconseil pour le moment ce jeu !!!    … Expand
  31. GreenCafe
    Feb 8, 2015
    2
    This game is the definition of mediocre. The beginning starts like any other action adventure game, and has dumb, thoughtless, tropes that setup a similar **** story. Very disappointing.
  32. Clagall
    Mar 7, 2015
    1
    There is a beautiful landscape, that looks far better from a afar. That's it (one point in favor), a wasteland, a misleading image that is powerful enough to sell this game to us, not as good as Banoi in the end but that is my personal preference.

    C.M.Z.A. Childish mutant zombies, again. Here's a small tip: they can't be threatening and ridiculous at the same time. Just like you    There is a beautiful landscape, that looks far better from a afar. That's it (one point in favor), a wasteland, a misleading image that is powerful enough to sell this game to us, not as good as Banoi in the end but that is my personal preference.

    C.M.Z.A.
    Childish mutant zombies, again.

    Here's a small tip: they can't be threatening and ridiculous at the same time. Just like you can't feel like a survivor if you are also an undercover hero swinging from the rooftops.

    The writing? is surprisingly uninspired for a story-driven game. Poorly designed, challenges for a fast paced action game. Too shallow to inspire any fear. The game is basically a giant playground without any real excitement).

    The constant complaints of the foul-mouthed main character make him extremely annoying. That is the one thing that I will remember about this game.    … Expand
  33. uttertutte
    Mar 25, 2015
    2
    Such a gorgeous game and fun game play and then it falters by the fact that its sooooo boring with the main character.
    I am so over the same boring white dude over and over and over.
    Please look at other games that solved this and fix it.
    I'm so disappointed after the first few hours so I'm giving it up.
    Been here done this.
    Waste of a good game.
  34. Irier
    May 9, 2015
    3
    Trailer is awesome, but that's pretty much it. Really shotty controls and constant crashes even after downloading a patch. Do yourself a favor and wait for the game to be out for a year before you decide to be a beta tester on an already launched game.
  35. orzech
    Jun 24, 2015
    1
    Game for Linux? Not working. Multiplayer? Not working. Updates? Crashing game. Open world? Same buildings all the time. Zombies? Yes but they can outrun you. This game should be sold for 1/8 price to be rated good.

    Thats why this game suck.
  36. Kotik_mur_mur
    Jun 5, 2019
    1
    Марач даун,а игра какашка
    Бебебебеббееббебебебееббебебебеебебебеебебеббебебебееб
  37. vova22379
    Aug 17, 2022
    2
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  38. BarbarTheKid
    Jun 24, 2021
    0
    Oyunun single player kısmı için değil bu verdiğim oy zira single oynarsanız muhtemelen benim yaşadıklarımı yaşamayacaksınız keza host olarak oynayan arkadaşım hiç bir dert tasa ile karşılaşmadan devam ediyor lâkin host değilseniz ufak tefek her yerden o kadar çok saçma sapan hata fırlıyor ki, bilhassa market sisteminde. Evlere şenlik, %76'ya kadar sohbet muhabbet geldiğim oyunu en sonOyunun single player kısmı için değil bu verdiğim oy zira single oynarsanız muhtemelen benim yaşadıklarımı yaşamayacaksınız keza host olarak oynayan arkadaşım hiç bir dert tasa ile karşılaşmadan devam ediyor lâkin host değilseniz ufak tefek her yerden o kadar çok saçma sapan hata fırlıyor ki, bilhassa market sisteminde. Evlere şenlik, %76'ya kadar sohbet muhabbet geldiğim oyunu en son sinir krizi ile bıraktım, hayatımda yaşadığım en tatsız deneyimlerden biriydi. Coop oynamak istiyorsanız host hariç herkeste peygamber sabrı olsa iyi olur. Aksi takdirde hiç yaklaşmayın derim.… Expand
  39. MINHNGUYEN1019
    Mar 1, 2021
    3
    Dying light has terrible optimization of CPU usage. Pretty much all CPUs in existence can't handle it so any high-end GPU gets bottle-necked. You can't squeeze more than 60 FPS out of it with any hardware, when high-end GPUs could potentially run it at 120 FPS without CPU bottleneck.
  40. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    2
    KIRIK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  41. defenz
    Sep 11, 2021
    1
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  42. Jakobyv20
    Jul 2, 2022
    0
    Althought the PS5 port is just terrible to play with on a 4k TV. I gave it the chance on my pc and I´m really enjoying it. Its not the continaution I expacted, but I´m not disapointed either.
  43. Kilio
    Dec 14, 2021
    0
    I really can't get into this game as hard as I try... It feels soulless and they tried to go for to much at once. The game borderlines on collect-a-thon and entirely fetch quest based tasks, The controls are absolutely horrible unless using a controller, The fighting is stiff and hollow and all of it breaks down to holding down a button and not doing much beyond that unless you want to useI really can't get into this game as hard as I try... It feels soulless and they tried to go for to much at once. The game borderlines on collect-a-thon and entirely fetch quest based tasks, The controls are absolutely horrible unless using a controller, The fighting is stiff and hollow and all of it breaks down to holding down a button and not doing much beyond that unless you want to use the useless tactics feature that didn't work half the time,… Expand
  44. Uarabei
    Feb 21, 2022
    2
    This game is boring to me. The setting is so hackneyed that it doesn't seem to offer you anything new. A protracted start, although not the longest when compared with the same RDR2.

    Finally got her money back.
  45. LeonAceborn
    Mar 25, 2022
    4
    Variation of zombies and weapons are adequate, parkour mechanics are working, skill tree mentality makes no sense , pointless story and charachters(include main charachter), inadequate combat mechanics, boring missions(run and run got the mission, fix antenna, kill the zombies, plant bomb, climb to something, find a way in, loot, kill the zombies but this time in arena, run to safeVariation of zombies and weapons are adequate, parkour mechanics are working, skill tree mentality makes no sense , pointless story and charachters(include main charachter), inadequate combat mechanics, boring missions(run and run got the mission, fix antenna, kill the zombies, plant bomb, climb to something, find a way in, loot, kill the zombies but this time in arena, run to safe place, craft, repair buy, sell and rest after then run for another pointless mission)...… Expand
  46. Dangusse
    Apr 7, 2023
    0
    this game is unplayable trash, even for free. the control scheme is idiotically overcomplicated and outrageously unresponsive. im expected to be sprinting all the time and to know exactly where i'm going, but the map beacons refuse to display 90% of the time, and pressing A to check my surroundings does not do anything after literally pressing the button 20 times in a row. this isn't eventhis game is unplayable trash, even for free. the control scheme is idiotically overcomplicated and outrageously unresponsive. im expected to be sprinting all the time and to know exactly where i'm going, but the map beacons refuse to display 90% of the time, and pressing A to check my surroundings does not do anything after literally pressing the button 20 times in a row. this isn't even open world, either. it's excruciatingly linear and even more excruciatingly so because the level design and flow is completely unintuitive garbage.

    they are doing literally every single thing in their power to make the game less fun, less interactive, slower, more limited, and more frustrating. who decided that's what anyone wants in an open world title? as i play it becomes more and more obvious that the reason we are so restricted in our gameplay is because they simply did not want to build a fleshed out or interactive world. it might be kinda big, i can't tell, but there's nothing to do, and you will walk past objectives on a regular basis because the game just refuses to show you where you are supposed to go. that lack of direction appears to be an entirely unintentional bug, which is ridiculous given that navigation is such an essential part of the gameplay loop.

    pepper in some extremely boring obligatory cutscenes that you have to press B 10000 times in a row to skip, and oh, make sure to put all of the things you need to interact with to change your gear in the absolute furthest locations from each other possible. the game can't even decide whether im allowed to walk faster than 1mph half the time, and it's terribly unintuitive.

    everyone complains about the film grain effect: it's awful, it's a ridiculous waste of the graphical requirements to just wash everything out until there's no detail left. well guess what? they added an option to turn it off in the settings! guess what else? that setting does not do anything! bravo, you hacks.    … Expand
  47. NathanielPrime
    Jan 5, 2023
    0
    This game is all jank all the time. Changing the mouse sensitivity changes your system settings but NOT the in-game settings. Changing the resolution changes your monitor resolution to the minimum resolution possible, puts the game in the corner, and freezes your computer if you click on it. True Windows Vista quality programming.
  48. j4ck_fl4sh_3k
    Jun 26, 2023
    3
    God I cannot stand this game, I keep uninstalling it from my hard drive, I forget how much is sucks and re installed only to quickly remember that the game is awful and bland, its a modern game for modern gamers.

    If feels like AI designed this game, its so paint by numbers... Zombies - CHECK Crafting - CHECK Open world - CHECK Stamina Management - CHECK Fetch Quests - CHECK    God I cannot stand this game, I keep uninstalling it from my hard drive, I forget how much is sucks and re installed only to quickly remember that the game is awful and bland, its a modern game for modern gamers.

    If feels like AI designed this game, its so paint by numbers...

    Zombies - CHECK
    Crafting - CHECK
    Open world - CHECK
    Stamina Management - CHECK
    Fetch Quests - CHECK
    "RPG" Elements - CHECK

    The issue is that game is so slowly drip feed to you its hard (for me atleast) to keep motivated to play more, weapons are awful and break after a quick scuffle with a zombie.

    I cannot stand RPG elements, I love RPGs (pokemon being the greatest one of all imo) but in most games now it means that you have any and all abilities stripped away until you've logged a week of gameplay to unlock the skills. In this game you have to unlock the ability to slide while running. Dead Island is far more fun and enjoyable.    … Expand
  49. pashockys
    Dec 10, 2022
    3
    plot of this game is a disaster, combat mechanic is awful, the only thing that is quite good is parkour and that's it
  50. LilitNefara
    Apr 30, 2023
    0
    Проходняк который я не прошел из-за сломанной экономики
  51. metehan3461
    Apr 18, 2023
    0
    hikayesi bok gibi mekanikleri bok gibi grafikleri bok gibi olay örgüsü bok gibi silahlar çok kolay kırılıyo ordan oraya sadece koşturarak gitmek yorucu kısacası bok gibi not(gece çıkan zombiler orospu çocuğu)
  52. Quazder
    Jun 27, 2023
    4
    No fast travel. Its just boring to travel 400 meters somewhere and then 400 back. I have better things to do than that.

    You will unlock grappling hook near end game if you dont do side quests. Anyways its pretty useless, the radius is very short and it has to recharge The Balance of this game is extremely bad. From the beggining you are nearly dying to everyone and you have to play    No fast travel. Its just boring to travel 400 meters somewhere and then 400 back. I have better things to do than that.

    You will unlock grappling hook near end game if you dont do side quests. Anyways its pretty useless, the radius is very short and it has to recharge

    The Balance of this game is extremely bad. From the beggining you are nearly dying to everyone and you have to play like a little **** but then when you raid Rais you get a lottta guns and things change from there and the game become so easy. You can litterally 2 shot big zombie with police gun that has 200+ attack.

    The perks are boring i completed the game with like 4 side quests done and i wasnt even nearby to reaching maximum level from any of these 3. What does this game expect me to do? Play it for 30 more hours after i finished the game just to unlock a few perks????

    Also the Sewers are so fokin boring that its just disguisting to be there again and again. Thats onestly the worst part of the game after missing fast travel.

    Story is extremely bad - 5 years old child could make a better story if you would give him a few days to think about something.

    Boring sewers, Boring missions like that arena mission with boss, the university mission was extremely boring

    Music is very buggy, if you are in dangerous place while doing mission, and you kill all the zombies, you will still hear that dramatic music, and its kinda annoying    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#11 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#48 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 40
  3. Negative: 2 out of 40
  1. Ten Ton Hammer
    Nov 1, 2015
    80
    Don't let the Dead Island affiliation sway you one way or the other, Dying Light is its own game and it's rightfully fun, but it's not something that is Game of the Year material to me. If you like zombie games and open world games then this is worth the pickup, but otherwise I'd skip it until it goes on sale, because it's still a really fun game no matter how you dice it.
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  2. Washington Post
    Apr 6, 2015
    40
    It’s a game of a thousand house calls, in which everyone needs something they can’t get or do for themselves. Catastrophe has made every doorstep a welcome place, with disease and death the justification for an openness that might seem unthinkable under other circumstances.
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  3. Dealspwn
    Mar 22, 2015
    70
    If you can get past the clunky storytelling and the repetitive missions, you might a diamond in the rough that really empowers you to revel in the design aspects of its zombie-infested sandbox.
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