Dying Light

 PlayStation 4
User Score
8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2022 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,532 out of 2022
  2. Mixed: 314 out of 2022
  3. Negative: 176 out of 2022
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  1. Negy
    Jun 26, 2020
    6
    I recently played this game. For the most part I had a good time on the game, for me it was fun and after some practice I managed to get used to the parkour mechanics. Night times, sometimes are too much and unplayable due to I can´t see **** at night, so everytime I was running away from the creatures, I ended up sumbling accross walls, so I avoided nighttime gameplay. Graphics and soundI recently played this game. For the most part I had a good time on the game, for me it was fun and after some practice I managed to get used to the parkour mechanics. Night times, sometimes are too much and unplayable due to I can´t see **** at night, so everytime I was running away from the creatures, I ended up sumbling accross walls, so I avoided nighttime gameplay. Graphics and sound design are average, not much to see in here. Story is flat, none of the characters is remarkable and it´s full of clichés. I finished the game mostly because it was fun to play, but the story is plain and forgetable.… Expand
  2. Ellazier
    Jun 22, 2020
    8
    Juego de campo abierto tremendamente disfrutable. Aunque el desarrollo de personajes es bastante básico, presenta muchos puntos fuertes, como exploración, trepidantes huidas y mucho loteo. La dinámica de huir de noche es intensa, y la campaña aceptable.

    Lo recomiendo por lo tremendamente entretenido que se hace, en especial si en su día disfrutaste de Dead Island o similares.
  3. Brownskinlover
    Jun 21, 2020
    8
    Great game with interesting story and characters. Passed it on my old laptop with 20 fps on average.
  4. Kinokee
    Jun 14, 2020
    7
    The game doesn't deliver the greatest platforming experiences despite being focused around it. Most of the trophies have bugs or glitches. Late game human enemies are bullet sponges. There's a lot of inconsistencies where you can't platform certain things and are greeted with certain doom.
  5. XxAlbertoBuzzxX
    Jun 2, 2020
    8
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  6. ryman221
    Apr 20, 2020
    7
    7.25 out of 10 - Great game.

    Scoring Scale: 1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed. 2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting. 3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities. 4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality    7.25 out of 10 - Great game.

    Scoring Scale:
    1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed.
    2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting.
    3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities.
    4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality sprinkled throughout. More than anything it's forgettable.
    5 - (OKAY) For every positive this game has there is just as many negatives. You may be able to find enjoyment in these games however you will likely be met with equal amounts frustration and disappointment.
    6 - (GOOD) There is a decent amount of fun to be had in these games albeit with a few noticeable drawbacks. Worth checking out at some point especially if on sale.
    7 - (GREAT) A game that has some flaws but all in all is a great game worth every penny of its purchase price.
    8 - (AMAZING) Game of the year contender only allowing for some minor flaws.
    9 - (SUPERB) One of if not the best game released that year, truly special.
    10 - (NEAR PERFECT) One of the best games ever made.    … Expand
  7. Garybaldo
    Mar 3, 2020
    7
    It works very well as a fun open-world zombie game, story isn't great but the game is very good for smashing zombies while jumping all around the place.
  8. Smithergoesmeow
    Feb 22, 2020
    10
    The best game to play with friends I have ever played. If you are into zombie survival, open world, fun character movement, and rpg elements and you have one friend who is too, you will literally love this game
  9. Sergiofrak
    Feb 6, 2020
    9
    Really good game because this is very scary and intensive, parkour sistem is perfect but I have bugs with grapple.
  10. Bruterake
    Feb 2, 2020
    10
    Dying light is one of the best zombie games that i ever played in my life, is just a mix of parkour, violence and zombies, resulting in one of the most fun games of the genre.
  11. Wolfenstein11
    Dec 24, 2019
    8
    this game is all about two things (for me at least) first the world which is a perfect playground to have fun in whether in coop or single player harran is wonderful piece that techland created second the gamplay, damn man i loved every bit of it, i just maxed my character just to be able to do all the moves.
    while crane reassembles a good a protagonist but the story didn't leave much to    this game is all about two things (for me at least) first the world which is a perfect playground to have fun in whether in coop or single player harran is wonderful piece that techland created second the gamplay, damn man i loved every bit of it, i just maxed my character just to be able to do all the moves.
    while crane reassembles a good a protagonist but the story didn't leave much to desire with average quests and npcs
    And let's mention the horror u have in the night well i consider this game 2*1 for this night section it's really a gameplay aspect that raises the score for the game
    I LOVE THIS GAME    … Expand
  12. Flashyboy89
    Dec 7, 2019
    6
    It was an okay game. Preferred Dead Island to be honest. The combat was better.
  13. enemycamper
    Nov 9, 2019
    8
    Enjoyable cohesion of open-world design trends integrated into a compact, but layered environment that constantly rewards.
    Robust (if at times finicky) parkour system.
    Dull and derivative main story.
  14. Sideshow
    Nov 8, 2019
    10
    Best zombie game for me ever! I love everything in this game. Graphics,gameplay,storyline. Such a masterpiece project!
  15. cdkj85
    Jul 19, 2019
    5
    I really liked this game at first. I had 102 hours into it before I allowed it to update. I usually dont allow my PS4 to connect to the internet, because I only play singleplayer, and its always trying to do something or connect to something or download something that i didnt ask it to. BUT I wanted the free DLC. I just wanted some additional content. Not for the fundamentals of theI really liked this game at first. I had 102 hours into it before I allowed it to update. I usually dont allow my PS4 to connect to the internet, because I only play singleplayer, and its always trying to do something or connect to something or download something that i didnt ask it to. BUT I wanted the free DLC. I just wanted some additional content. Not for the fundamentals of the fuggin game to change. It was bad enough how hard the game is in the very beginning, but you couldnt change the difficulty. AT ALL. (unless you update) SO I get completely leveled up and Im enoying the game. I was getting towards the end of the story, so I decided to let the game update for the DLC. Now the ENTIRE damage system has been reworked. I could understand adding a higher difficulty, which they also did, but for the casual player...someone whos already got 102 fugging hours in the game, to so drastically change the way you have to play....its very frustrating. So now my options are 1) quit playing it and dont finish a game i have over 4 solid days in 2) accept it and try to finish a game im no longer really having fun with 3) Delete the whole thing and start completely over again. I think this is Techlands first major success and so maybe they are still things out, but this seems so amateur, and I simply cannot understand their though process. It will ABSOLUTELY make me thing long and hard about ever buying another Techland game.… Expand
  16. VahNabooty
    Apr 30, 2019
    8
    One of the best open world games out there, and one of the only times I've actually enjoyed a game with zombies in it.
  17. Fersay777
    Apr 13, 2019
    10
    This is the most enjoyable,fun game I' ve played. Dont bother the journalists dumbass review. They don t even play the game. Parkour,and crafting are really fun. Techland has done what other devs forgot about games: funny games! The system combat is a really nice feature,it s cool when you blow a zombie head,or when you electrocute them with your electric pipe. Congrats techland
  18. Rede_Gamers
    Apr 5, 2019
    8
    This game surprised me a lot. Ok, the story. meh, forget about it. Nothing much there.
    However, the gameplay is very good. Whenever you are out in the world, you feel a sense of danger and when the night comes... oh boy, it gets really scary.
    The crafting mechanics are surprisingly good. However, towards the end of the game, you feel like a God. Your skills and weapons get really high    This game surprised me a lot. Ok, the story. meh, forget about it. Nothing much there.
    However, the gameplay is very good. Whenever you are out in the world, you feel a sense of danger and when the night comes... oh boy, it gets really scary.
    The crafting mechanics are surprisingly good. However, towards the end of the game, you feel like a God. Your skills and weapons get really high and the enemies remain as there were in the beginning.
    The parkour mechanics work really well. At some stage in the game, you feel like the spider-man.

    The graphics feel a bit dated not many expressions on the characters faces and the dialogue is a bit silly in some occasions.
    Overall, if you are into post-apocalyptic/survival games I'm confident you will enjoy this.    … Expand
  19. Chowjust
    Feb 20, 2019
    8
    I'm a big zombie fan, so this game already starts off with a head-start. Dying Light is a very fun, and immersive open world game to get lost in. The story is pretty good for a zombie story, graphics are fine but game-play and the atmosphere is where this game shines. Combining Mirror's Edge style parkour movement with Dead Island style combat and a zombie open-world to go parkour thoughI'm a big zombie fan, so this game already starts off with a head-start. Dying Light is a very fun, and immersive open world game to get lost in. The story is pretty good for a zombie story, graphics are fine but game-play and the atmosphere is where this game shines. Combining Mirror's Edge style parkour movement with Dead Island style combat and a zombie open-world to go parkour though is genius and makes for a very fun gaming experience. Then thrown in a day and night cycle where being out a night is much more dangerous and the last thing you want is to be caught out while the sun is going down and you've got a very scary atmosphere. Combat is very satisfying and is similar to Dead Island but much more improved. For the zombie genre fans out there, this is a very good game which you'll enjoy but for people who can't stand the zombie genre, I don't feel like this will do much for ya. They've also continued to support the game with paid and free DLC four years after release. I mean that's pretty cool.… Expand
  20. leadpain
    Sep 17, 2018
    8
    really intense, tense game and gameplay, plenty of resource, remarkable story. absolutely need to play!
  21. Tuckerr
    Aug 18, 2018
    0
    You know when your dog pukes, and the dog keeps going back to eat it over and over again, hoping it'll taste good eventually? That's what it's like for me playing this game. The controls are clunky. You are outnumbered to the nth degree. The combat is terrible. You play as an asthmatic soyboy who does almost no damage and can't swing a weapon for more than 5 seconds in a parkour zombieYou know when your dog pukes, and the dog keeps going back to eat it over and over again, hoping it'll taste good eventually? That's what it's like for me playing this game. The controls are clunky. You are outnumbered to the nth degree. The combat is terrible. You play as an asthmatic soyboy who does almost no damage and can't swing a weapon for more than 5 seconds in a parkour zombie survival game. Guns attract zombies that will dodge all your bullets and eat you; and ammo is scarce. The plot is awful. The characters are flat. The resources are scarce to the point I'm usually running around with 35 health constantly because I can't heal or feel like I won't have resources for a medkit. I have sunk about 15-16 hours into this game and I'm at level 10 at every skill set and it's still godawful to play at 22% completion. Level ups do NOT increase your survivability in this terrible excuse of a game. I have given it a chance. I am done. I got this on sale and still feel so incredibly ripped off. I do not know who would enjoy this piece of crap. Save your money.… Expand
  22. Sharpen
    Jul 31, 2018
    10
    Superb game that everyone should play. The player movement is so good that it makes it really easy and amazingly pleasant to traverse the map. I enjoyed every bit of it and can't wait for Dying Light 2.
  23. egoBorder
    Jun 11, 2018
    6
    There's a lot of good in Dying Light. The first thing you'll notice is the music, which has a neat 80s synth aesthetic. It's the first tease of an engrossing yet light-hearted experience in a zombie-infested metropolis that feels like a Rio de Janeiro in the Middle East. The city is quite large and detailed, rendered in impressive graphics. And the mechanics go deep, as you'll know ifThere's a lot of good in Dying Light. The first thing you'll notice is the music, which has a neat 80s synth aesthetic. It's the first tease of an engrossing yet light-hearted experience in a zombie-infested metropolis that feels like a Rio de Janeiro in the Middle East. The city is quite large and detailed, rendered in impressive graphics. And the mechanics go deep, as you'll know if you take a peek at the various skill trees available.

    However, this game is such a grind before you get a proper foothold in the world that you may well get tired of the game before you reach that point. Earning experience is painstakingly slow, divided as it is across three initial categories before a fourth class opens up. I highly recommend finding tutorials to learn the nuaces of gameplay (which are manyfold) to maximize experience earning potential early on. This will save a lot of frustration. I appreciate that feeling underpowered for a large portion of the game makes the world feel deadly dangerous, but it's a bit overboard here.

    But the final nail in the coffin is how gratingly annoying and badly written every single NPC is in this game. From cliched villains to cliched allies, to whiny fetch-quest givers, to unfunny and tedious blabbermouths, it's simply a chore to speak to anyone. The immersion of the game is killed three words into any conversation.

    A more minor criticism is how samey the city feels. It's very easy to get lost because differentiating buildings or even cardinal directions is nearly impossible without the map.

    This game requires a ton of patience to enjoy    … Expand
  24. njja02
    May 15, 2018
    7
    Although the narrative is awful, and I also found the side quests to be bland, everything else about this game is great. Some of the most fun I've had in a co-op game.
  25. Wardrobechaos
    Mar 27, 2018
    9
    Just finished the game and started the Following. What a great game. Its a long time since a game gripped me like this. Most of all i liked the WORLD. its so believable, you feel alone, you feel vulnerable and it takes a while until you get better gear/skills but still you can be easily overpowered if you dont play it smart. Grafics, Characters, Story - i liked all of it. The highlight wasJust finished the game and started the Following. What a great game. Its a long time since a game gripped me like this. Most of all i liked the WORLD. its so believable, you feel alone, you feel vulnerable and it takes a while until you get better gear/skills but still you can be easily overpowered if you dont play it smart. Grafics, Characters, Story - i liked all of it. The highlight was for me the many, many well written side quests.… Expand
  26. BlakDak666
    Jul 26, 2017
    7
    This review only covers the base game and the dlcs prior to the following expansion.

    Zombie games have flooded the market for quite a long time and still keep going today. To see Dying Light as "another zombie game" for me is a mixture of going through the motions and simply turning off my critique switch and just enjoying cathartic fun. It definitely is fun, there's a surprising amount    This review only covers the base game and the dlcs prior to the following expansion.

    Zombie games have flooded the market for quite a long time and still keep going today. To see Dying Light as "another zombie game" for me is a mixture of going through the motions and simply turning off my critique switch and just enjoying cathartic fun. It definitely is fun, there's a surprising amount of stuff to do in the zombified city of Harran. Parkouring over buildings and obstacles is very fun and its often overlooked nowadays in games where you have to glitch up the side of a mountain or building to get to your destination or have some sort of predetermined path to go on. Dying Light doesn't do this and instead allows you to freely explore the city at your own pace and progress.

    So why would this game get a 7/10? I want to stress again, playing Dying Light is fun and I would consider a 7/10 a good game, but not a great one. There are significant problems with Techland's game that makes it difficult to praise it for what it lacks more in. The game can be incredibly buggy and enemy AIs can be underwhelming when reacting to your movements. The plot that the game focuses on is really cliche to the point it's cliche swiss cheese. Name a cliche point in a film or book or show, Dying Light has it, which is a shame because given the music is a 70s and 80s theme that placed emphasis on action over plot in the films at that time this game could have been far better. What I mean is the setting should've been the 70s/80s instead of modern day.

    The durability system is fine, but the need to drop a weapon you like after running out of repairs can be very heartbreaking. The game does have a survival system in place to establish its rules on clearing out hordes and scavenging to survive, but many zombie games have done this to a far greater effect and as a consequence has only dulled the sense of enjoyment when scavenging the city. The repetition is quite taxing after the first few hours go by and the quests and missions you go
    on don't really have much emotion or weight to them. They feel as interchangeable and deaf as the next one.

    I like the enemy variety and the day/night cycle is a really great gamble for players to try to get more stuff at the cost of being killed easier on the surface, but the losses are so minor that it doesn't bother me because you don't lose the items you get, only experience. Later on the devs would update the game to make a mode that makes death more meaningful but really Dying Light doesn't make dying have any weight, rather it just spawns you back to your checkpoint area instead. The co-op is really nice, the dlc is underwhelming and weak, the pvp mode is bad and really the amount of fetch quests and backtracking can be really taxing for me to want to get back into for a second run.

    Dying Light isn't bad by any means, but it had come in a point in time where zombie games were exploding with popularity and numerous titles that the game suffers almost from a identity crisis. It plays a safe way and doesn't try to be different, but can be enjoyable if you like something to do.    … Expand
  27. badgerryan19
    Jun 19, 2017
    7
    Dying Light is what Dead Island should of been. A more action free slowing combat game. The story was nothing too special, but overall I did enjoy it. Especially going out at night.
  28. Ramiro1992
    Jun 19, 2017
    6
    This game is a decent fps zombie game, too bad that the idea is overused and they tried to copy dead island idea, they failed miserably, but at least this game is interesting and somewhat fun to play.
    Buy it only if you really like zombie games.
    6/10
  29. Pepefromage
    Jun 8, 2017
    9
    I jumped over a wall and hear someone breathing behind me. I turn around and have to defend myself against a fierce zombie . Some other zombies heard the fight and come at me . Quickly overwhelmed, i have no choice but to flee . I jumped over a roof and pass thru it ,making big noise that attracted fast zombies, more dangerous than the few i fled from. Having just a knife to defend myself,I jumped over a wall and hear someone breathing behind me. I turn around and have to defend myself against a fierce zombie . Some other zombies heard the fight and come at me . Quickly overwhelmed, i have no choice but to flee . I jumped over a roof and pass thru it ,making big noise that attracted fast zombies, more dangerous than the few i fled from. Having just a knife to defend myself, i decided to climb up to a rooftop. I can hear him coming at me. So i watch around me, to make sure i can see him climbing . At the last second i kick him down to make him die a few meter bellow. Thats the kind of situation you can experience in this game .If you let yourself immerse in it, it can be challenging , scary and really fun to play… Expand
  30. Compi24
    Apr 24, 2017
    8
    An immersive combat and weapon customization system successfully smooths over the cracks of an imperfect story in "Dying Light," Techland's much-improved spiritual successor to "Dead Island," where the parkour may be a bit cumbersome at times and the side quests might be a tad too monotonous for my tastes, but overall, the experience is nonetheless noteworthy and satisfying.
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Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 58 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 58
  3. Negative: 0 out of 58
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 22, 2015
    70
    A slightly better version of Dead Island in everything but name. [Apr 2015, p.84]
  2. Play UK
    Mar 31, 2015
    85
    With some crazy fun online elements and a badass sense of actual achievement, Dying Light is the zombie game we've been working for. Just mute those terrible voices. [Issue#254, p.64]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Mar 24, 2015
    80
    It's not perfect, but Dying Light is last, brutal and most importantly, fun. [April 2015, p74]
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