Days Gone

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8.4

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  1. Johno752
    Mar 7, 2020
    10
    I didn’t buy this when it released due to all of the negative reviews but this (in my opinion) is definitely game of the year material. It’s one of the few games of 2019 where I genuinely can’t stop playing the game.
  2. kurotan
    Jul 10, 2021
    9
    This game is fantastic. It’s a criminal shame it’s not getting a sequel. The moment to moment experience has been nothing short of fantastic. The loneliness, the desolation, the tragedy and the hate and the hope all come together beautifully
  3. ethan_fitz01
    Jun 15, 2021
    7
    Days Gone is enjoyable if not remarkable experience. The story is largely forgettable for the most part with a few highs. The gameplay is quite enjoyable once you begin taking on hordes, but years after release, there are still a few bugs that can plague the experience. The AI is downright bad at times, with human enemies and freakers sometimes not interacting with each other. All and all,Days Gone is enjoyable if not remarkable experience. The story is largely forgettable for the most part with a few highs. The gameplay is quite enjoyable once you begin taking on hordes, but years after release, there are still a few bugs that can plague the experience. The AI is downright bad at times, with human enemies and freakers sometimes not interacting with each other. All and all, Days Gone is a solid experience worth playing, just don't expect the same level of polish that other Sony first party games deliver (The Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War to name a few).… Expand
  4. MilfilD
    Jun 17, 2020
    10
    The project has technical problems, no doubt. However, as a game, it was a success! We are waiting for part 2!
  5. rikk
    Oct 24, 2020
    9
    Absolutely fantastic game, enjoyed the gameplay right to the end, just a couple of times the game crashed, so dropping a point, in around 100hrs+ gameplay. Great storyline, pacing, characters, world, graphics, sound. All Overall would definately recommend.
  6. HaloFever
    Sep 11, 2021
    8
    Days Gone looks and plays like Read Dead Redemption and The Last of Us had a baby and that baby rides a motorcycle.

    The troubled launch of Days Gone has nothing to do with my playthrough. I saw a few bugs but really no more than I’ve seen in open world games like Read Dead Redemption. On the whole, Days Gone is a solid product. Shooting, melee, stealth, and motorcycle riding all feel    Days Gone looks and plays like Read Dead Redemption and The Last of Us had a baby and that baby rides a motorcycle.

    The troubled launch of Days Gone has nothing to do with my playthrough. I saw a few bugs but really no more than I’ve seen in open world games like Read Dead Redemption. On the whole, Days Gone is a solid product. Shooting, melee, stealth, and motorcycle riding all feel good. The fundamentals are there. The story is also not bad, but don’t expect alternate paths and alternate endings. This sandbox has high walls.

    First, the good. The zombies in this game are fun to kill. They are not technically zombies. Instead of supernatural beings, the “Freakers” are rabid humans. You don’t need to destroy their brain stems to kill them. You can run them over, burn them, explode them, beat them with a 2x4, or simply shoot them. By the end of the game, you will be shooting a lot of the zombies. Hordes of them. And it never stops being fun. You can also kill a large number of humans, and though the gunplay is well done, the humans are not as satisfying to take down as some of the more interesting zombies. Fair warning, the first few hours are a rocky first few hours. Trust me, though, the game opens up into a very fun experience.

    Now, the bad. The game needed something more. You can see limitations immediately. The rank and file zombies only present themselves with 3 character models that have only 1 set of clothing each. The game design is also intent on making inventory management a nightmare. You can only carry 3 of each type of grenade, trap, or distraction device. Why not cary 9 pineapple grenades and none of the other? Nope. You can carry 3. And you can only carry so much of each kind of crafting material to make your own grenades. Very quickly, I stopped relying on crafted items and focused instead of buying ammo at camps. The game world tells you ammo is scarce. By the end of the game, you will be buying thousands of rounds of ammo on a whim. An open world sandbox game is always better when it embraces the power of player choice. Days Gone needed some more choices for something, anything, to set it apart from Red Dead Redemption in The Last of Us universe.

    “Days Gone” really does have a The Last of Us feel to it. You have the dread, the artificial family, and even a few jokes to break the silence. And you have the zombies and crafting. I feel like the developer pitched this game as an open world game in The Last of Us universe and Sony said no. So the developer made their own kind of zombie instead. The premier mechanic in the game is the horde. Instead of sneaking around and fearing for your life, you take on hundreds of zombies at once. Yet I didn’t have the tools to fight a horde for the first 30 hours of playing this game. If the game introduced the horde mechanic earlier, I would have seen some unique potential to a “Days Gone” series. Instead, you almost have to finish the game to fight the hordes, and most players do not finish games. I can understand why Sony didn’t green light a “Days Gone 2”.

    Full disclosure: I downloaded “Days Gone” for “free” with PlayStation Plus and played it on PS5. That means fast load times and 60fps. Sony also gave away Horizon Zero Dawn for free free last spring, and if you want to play one of the best open world games of all time, play that. (It is also 60fps on PS5). When you are done with Horizon Zero Dawn and want to shoot some zombies, give “Days Gone” a try. Tell ‘em Deke sent ya’.    … Expand
  7. ragerino
    Oct 10, 2020
    10
    Hands down, one of the best games of this generation. Story is great (mostly). The game mechanics are awesome and can be combined, and when you think you are overpowered, the game introduces hordes. Looking forward to a sequel or whatever Bend Studios come up with.
  8. christhewiz
    Oct 11, 2020
    6
    This could have been a great game. But everything in this game feels half finished and rushed..
  9. Licherus
    Jul 11, 2020
    10
    Awesome gameplay, interesting story, cool horde mechanics and I love the characters
  10. Camlambelot
    Mar 6, 2022
    8
    The most UNDERRATED game of the last 5 years atleast. The game has a great story, great length, great amount of stuff to do and most importantly NOT POLTICALLY CORRECT. It's just an enjoyable, challenging, stealth, action, motorcycle driving, fun game.

    Oh, and there's a ton of super fast, crazy zombies in it. A must play for action game lovers.
  11. petmonster
    Apr 20, 2021
    0
    My ps4 pro sounds like a jet engine while playing this game?! I don't know how sony even let this game published.

    Also save system is so broken. Started the game on hard2 (dont know what 2 means lol) and I get 2 shotted by regular creeps. Which take forever for me to kill with a baseball bat, Totally unfair. So i tried to take it back to normal but no... you have to start a new game    My ps4 pro sounds like a jet engine while playing this game?! I don't know how sony even let this game published.

    Also save system is so broken. Started the game on hard2 (dont know what 2 means lol) and I get 2 shotted by regular creeps. Which take forever for me to kill with a baseball bat, Totally unfair.
    So i tried to take it back to normal but no... you have to start a new game f**k all your progress, You know why? Because some designer decided you can't for some unfathomable reason, because f**k you thats why.    … Expand
  12. Stampede60kk
    May 19, 2021
    5
    Half of the game is ok, i even thought it's good game. But other half of the game, all army stuff suck as hell. And repeated missions go there and bring that things sucks. Score of 5 it's more than i can give to this game.
  13. jlaff
    Jan 17, 2023
    10
    This game is a masterpiece. I'm not much of a console gamer (big PC Gamer). I basically grew out of enjoying most console games for some reason and when I originally saw this I wrote it off as just another generic console game. Boy was I wrong. This has become one of my favorite videogames of all time.

    I skipped the PS4 and picked up a PS5. Played through Bloodborne (loved it). Played a    This game is a masterpiece. I'm not much of a console gamer (big PC Gamer). I basically grew out of enjoying most console games for some reason and when I originally saw this I wrote it off as just another generic console game. Boy was I wrong. This has become one of my favorite videogames of all time.

    I skipped the PS4 and picked up a PS5. Played through Bloodborne (loved it). Played a few hours of Ghosts of Tsushima (boring generic console game at its core). Played God of War for like 20 minutes before realizing it too was a generic (albeit polished) console game like Ghosts of Tsushima. And when I say generic I can't put my finger on it exactly, but these are the types of games consoles are known for and something about them just bores me. Then I stumbled across some community buzz on Days Gone and decided to try it. As a predominantly PC gamer, Days Gone just completely blew me away. To the point I'm telling everyone "you need to play this game!".    … Expand
  14. MaximumD
    May 3, 2021
    6
    Got this for free on PS plus and I'm certainly glad I paid no money for it. This game is basically "The Last of US" but you have this chessy bike mechanic and the zombies are more deadly ( sort of). Everything else is by the numbers. Fetch quests for characters you don't care about and hundreds of repeatable side missions. Oh look another area where you need to clear out zombie nests orGot this for free on PS plus and I'm certainly glad I paid no money for it. This game is basically "The Last of US" but you have this chessy bike mechanic and the zombies are more deadly ( sort of). Everything else is by the numbers. Fetch quests for characters you don't care about and hundreds of repeatable side missions. Oh look another area where you need to clear out zombie nests or sneak through a camp and kill humans. The requisite crafting is here as well. You get to ride a chopper around, which breaks down or runs out of gas constantly but in this bleak world there seems to be plenty of bike pumps and fuel just randomly lying around. People really didn't do a good job of scavenging for the preceding 275 days gone prior to the start of the game apparently.

    A by the numbers game, nothing special whatsoever. It seems like the 3rd person action adventure type game has just runs it course on the PS4/PS3 era. Boring and formulaic, with the same stereotypical characters as every other game in this genre. Pass.    … Expand
  15. isarmstrong
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    With a year of maturity, the bugs ironed out, and an array of mini-games; this is a criminally underrated title. For me it holds up with the best PS4 exclusives of the generation and is one of my top 5 favorite games I’ve played in the last few years. Admittedly the plot is a little bit on rails, without a lot of choice-based consequence, and I’d love to see weapon modification on par withWith a year of maturity, the bugs ironed out, and an array of mini-games; this is a criminally underrated title. For me it holds up with the best PS4 exclusives of the generation and is one of my top 5 favorite games I’ve played in the last few years. Admittedly the plot is a little bit on rails, without a lot of choice-based consequence, and I’d love to see weapon modification on par with the bike. Nitpicks aside though this was a title that made me a part of Deacon’s emotional world and still hasn’t let go weeks later—and I played it alongside Death Stranding during the quarantine.

    Games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Witcher 3 did that. It’s a rare treat and one that more people should experience.    … Expand
  16. Amata
    Apr 22, 2021
    8
    A slow burner at the beginning with the main character having a lot of rough edges, but that kind of personality fits well in a post apocalyptic setting. A fantastically tense game once you begin encountering the hoards. Am still hoping for a sequel, as really want to find out what happens next and the story hints were very intriguing
  17. uran83
    Apr 19, 2021
    10
    Best zombie openworld game ever! Great story, good graphic. Defenetely need a sequel!
  18. Juniorprice
    Apr 20, 2021
    10
    Bom jogo, histórias legal, mapa grande com bastante locais para conhecer, enfim vale a pena jogar.
  19. Slimin
    Apr 17, 2021
    9
    Need to be more! This setting perfect for Walking Dead. Need to be more! Days Gone 2 please.
  20. Daniel_Keelh
    Jul 27, 2021
    5
    Sin duda el mas mediocre de todos los juegos de PStudios. El guion y los diálogos parecen escritos por un niño de 5 años, por lo demás es un sandbox mediocre a todos los niveles, incluido el técnico y artístico.
  21. Chris8310
    Jun 1, 2021
    9
    Great story, emotional content, nice graphics.
    Definitely in my recent top 10 list!
  22. SuperkenGaming
    Apr 21, 2021
    7
    Days Gone
    A good game with good amount of problems
    Days Gone is a nearly 25hr long 3rd person open world adventure game as decan in a post apocalyptic Oregon, there an infestation that turned people intpo freakers, youre baracaded off from the rest of the world, nd you’ve been separated from your wife.. its been 2 years and the wonder in your head of is she still alive or Is she dead    Days Gone
    A good game with good amount of problems
    Days Gone is a nearly 25hr long 3rd person open world adventure game as decan in a post apocalyptic Oregon, there an infestation that turned people intpo freakers, youre baracaded off from the rest of the world, nd you’ve been separated from your wife.. its been 2 years and the wonder in your head of is she still alive or Is she dead and youre just chasing a ghost.. this aspct of the game is the best part of days gone.. and while this is a good game and will get a good rating from me… there just so much here in days gone that sets out to ruin its potential…
    This game is just not enjoyable… you ride your bike back and forth running errands that don’t really matter to you for practically 90% of the game.. the other 10% of the game is spent uncovering the truth about your wife, abnd these are the moments that sucked me in .. these are the moments that had me just sucking it up and doing the boring task of drive here, drive there, just to unlock the next flashback or the next clue to what happened to her.. this was my bread crumb… what makes the rest of the game so bad is that days gone just does everything in its power to make your time playing it miserable, issue 1
    you have to manage your bike, you will run out of gas, you will have to repair it.. which is fine.. I appreciate the immersion this added to the game.. howver you would think you were driving a hummer rather than a motorcycle for how quickly you run out of gas,
    issue 2 , theres no incetive to explore in between tasks,.. your inventory space is so limited that it discourages any sort of weapon collecting, and there isn’t much to seek out in this world outher than health and stamina upgrades.. leading to a world that just feels like a chore and an obstacle…
    which brings me to issue 3.. the world is just an obstacle.. if it isn’t annoying enough to have to find gas trying to go from point a to b, youll constantl me ambushed, there will be snipers, tripwires, wolves.. the game wont let you just get to where oyu have to go.. it needs to throw you off your bike and force you to kill a bunch of enemies in a game with a heavy emphasis on survival… health and ammo is not plentiful here… so its kind of bs how often the game forces damage and combat on you during moments not even associated with the story… which brings me onto the 4th issue.. the hordes… again with the lack of ammo and recources.. especially to craft the thing needed to actually kill these things.. theyre just way too powerful and annoying.. and can be real game stoppers. As the game forces you to kill hordes like 4 times throughout the story.. though thankfully after dying enough your given the option to skip that bit… almost as if the game knows it has some overly frustrating parts to it… Days Gone essentially set out to make an open world version of the last of us.. but forgot to balance the mechanics of the last of us to exist within an open world… maybe the point was to make things miserable. To bring the actual emotion you would feel living in this world… in that, the game succeeds.. but in being an enjoybale experience, the payoff here wasn’t worth the misery… the world, the characters, the story.. its solid.. it good… days gone is an experience at least trying out… it did oddly enough have its hooks in me.. I happily played all the way until I got my answer.. it wasn’t until those final 6 hours that I was just over the game, its then you realize without that breadcrumb, theres nothing here to incetivize you to keep playing…
    I give Days Gone
    a 7/10    … Expand
  23. msadeghi
    Mar 15, 2020
    10
    Very Good balance between story and challenges and missions. The atmosphere is fantastic and in every corner there is an untold story that you see after the crisis. Enemies are dumb sometimes. The bike is your best friend and one of the best mates in video games history. Hordes are the real challenge in the game. You have to strategize your approach. A memorable game with so muchVery Good balance between story and challenges and missions. The atmosphere is fantastic and in every corner there is an untold story that you see after the crisis. Enemies are dumb sometimes. The bike is your best friend and one of the best mates in video games history. Hordes are the real challenge in the game. You have to strategize your approach. A memorable game with so much potential. Graphics are insane specially when climate changes or you go from one region to another. Well do e. I don't like zombie games but Days gone is a a game changer in this genre.… Expand
  24. MGWALKER
    Apr 16, 2021
    9
    On PlayStation 5 game is awsome. Great story! Open World - Oregon is beautiful.
  25. Five5x
    Jan 22, 2021
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I ended up buying this game after I watched a few videos showing how much it improved. Overall it's a great game. If I was to imagine what a post apocalyptical open world infected zombie game would be, it would be pretty close to this. The game does a great job immersing the player into the world. It's fun to drive around on my hog and see what's going on. A lot of the characters are spot on representations. From people who have been waiting all their lives for some end of the world stuff to happen. To others doing their best to protect the people. Everything this game does, it does it well. Shooting, hand to hand combat, driving and exploring feel good.

    That isn't to say there isn't some issues. I find the game has some inconsistences in it's story telling and characters. People do and say things that make little sense or contradict earlier things they said. For instance, earlier in the story I was sent on a job to get something and the guy who sent me out wasn't worried about causing trouble with a certain group of people. Later in the story he tells me I don't want to anger the leader of those same very people earlier he didn't care if I killed. Then 2 seconds later he says we need to take care of the group of people he just said not to mess with. It absolutely makes no sense. Or how about Saint John being a complete jerk to people in the camps, yet needing their help and or working with them. It makes no sense to create ill will with people you're constantly working with.

    There's other another issues that irk me. Anytime you go into a camp and walk by the mechanic or anyone else in a camp, they comment on you being there. If you happen to walk by them a few seconds later, they comment like they haven't seen you in days. You can do this over and over again. At one point I had a mission to check in on a friend. I drove all the way over there to ask him something for him to reply completely incorrectly to what I was asking and that was the whole mission. It's little things like this that don't seem right in a game that gets so much right. Then there's rescuing screaming survivors who are always the same few character models. Why would anybody scream in your face while rescuing them in a zombie apocalypses? Again, it makes no sense.

    Another thing that bothers me is how the game tries very hard to say who would survive the zombie apocalypse and who wouldn't. Only the gangsters, drug addicts, bikers and ex cons would survive. The game even says accountants wouldn't make it out in this world, says who? They try to make this clear delineation of who's capable of surviving and it makes no sense. Survival skills are not base on being a bad$ss on the streets before everything went down.

    But besides these few issues, the game itself is a ton of fun and I would totally recommend.    … Expand
  26. Koveres
    Apr 14, 2020
    10
    Finally picked this up and played straight through during the Covid-19 lockdown and all I got to say is wow...This is a true sleeper hit and a game that the initial reviews really got wrong upon release or are no longer valid. In April 2020, this is one of the best ps4 exclusives you can play. Thrilling and tactical gameplay with a misunderstood and extremely cynical main character. TakingFinally picked this up and played straight through during the Covid-19 lockdown and all I got to say is wow...This is a true sleeper hit and a game that the initial reviews really got wrong upon release or are no longer valid. In April 2020, this is one of the best ps4 exclusives you can play. Thrilling and tactical gameplay with a misunderstood and extremely cynical main character. Taking on a horde after some careful planning and barely surviving the encounter may go down as one of the most exciting moments I've ever experienced in gaming! Hats off to Bend Studio/Sony and thank you for an amazing experience that really took my mind off the current situation.… Expand
  27. jimmylittle007
    Apr 23, 2021
    0
    Every bit as bad as you've heard. I got it for free on psplus and i still feel ripped off lol.
  28. ericparis
    Mar 31, 2020
    8
    Great and story. Really enjoyed it. Single player . Good long hours of play.
  29. CampoX
    Mar 8, 2021
    10
    Haven't even booted up my Xbox 1X, or played anything else (other than when friends are round) since downloading this for my PS5 (not even Spiderman). The world, story, mechanics, bike, upgrades, progression - at 60fps - are up there with RDR2, almost no busy work (cough Ubisoft) and just embarrassingly better than Cyberpunk; technically and in terms of cohesive world building. IfHaven't even booted up my Xbox 1X, or played anything else (other than when friends are round) since downloading this for my PS5 (not even Spiderman). The world, story, mechanics, bike, upgrades, progression - at 60fps - are up there with RDR2, almost no busy work (cough Ubisoft) and just embarrassingly better than Cyberpunk; technically and in terms of cohesive world building. If playing PS4 games as there were supposed to be (my Pro's noise sent me to Series X) then I'm happy to by working my way through the back catalogue (not you TLOU2 again/which Days gone beats in almost every way). Thank you Digital Foundry for getting me to download a game I'd dismissed due to reviewers, even when a friend said it was one of the best games he's played. I'm still only 30% complete (!!!!) and it has already had plenty of gob smacking emotions with a cast of characters that are varied, interesting and well fleshed out. An easy 10 out of 10 (on PS5).… Expand
  30. ayrten
    Jan 6, 2023
    5
    Quite boring and repeatable. Story without single spark but not annoying. World is nicely built however which makes traveling quite fun. Riding a bike is fun.
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#3 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2019
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#2 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2019

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71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 109 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 109
  2. Mixed: 42 out of 109
  3. Negative: 4 out of 109
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jun 26, 2019
    87
    Bend Studio made a great game with a rich, believable and captivating story. They’ve also resisted the lure of trends: there’s no multiplayer, no lootboxes, no “game as a service” plans – just a very solid (and finite) singleplayer experience. That makes it a rare gem these days, maybe one of the last of its kind. [Issue#238, p.42]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    May 31, 2019
    60
    At the beginning of the game you’ll feel like you've already played this game... then it will let you go for a while only to return with reinforcements (and lots of bugs). However, Days Gone has a couple of pleasant moments, that can't be denied. [Issue#295]
  3. ZTGD
    May 30, 2019
    75
    I expect and hope for a sequel. Just know that going into this game that there is a lot of tedious nonsense to pad out a really good game to make it feel more worth every dollar, much to its detriment. I want to give this game a better score because the best moments are so good, but the large portion of this game is so bloody tiring that I just can’t.
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