Dying Light

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2268 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. LilitNefara
    Apr 30, 2023
    0
    Проходняк который я не прошел из-за сломанной экономики
  4. 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)
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. vova22379
    Aug 17, 2022
    2
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  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. defenz
    Sep 11, 2021
    1
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  15. 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
  16. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    2
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  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Kotik_mur_mur
    Jun 5, 2019
    1
    Марач даун,а игра какашка
    Бебебебеббееббебебебееббебебебеебебебеебебеббебебебееб
  21. 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!
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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
  26. 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.
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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.
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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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