Dying Light 2: Stay Human Reviews
Developer Techland accumulates all they’ve learned from their action-horror catalog, delivering solidly fun zombie-slaying in this sequel. Its long-winded story may miss the mark in keeping you captivated, but the fun to be had more than makes up for that. And the PS4 version is a great option to play, running at very stable performances and maintaining very acceptable visual fidelity.
What's the need to hurry? The game's not going anywhere. Let their problems be solved, and that's how you play.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Dying Light 2 offers a beautiful open world experience that doesn't feel heavy thanks to its fun and unique gameplay, and while the game succeeds in offering a beautiful world and great musical elements, it fails to deliver a memorable story, add to that some annoying technical issues.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Dying Light 2 is bigger and better than the first game. It improves on the original in every aspect while keeping the same formula. It’s a grindy game that can take either hundreds of hours to complete, or just a regular open-world action-adventure that you can finish in about 25-30 hours if you’re just interested in the main story.
Dying Light 2 is so close to being great, but it is held back by a myriad of technical issues. It's fine with friends, but wait for some patches if you intend to fly solo.
Dying Light 2 is a safe and at the same time very good continuation. The creators do not risk, they have to prepare several updates and it will undoubtedly be an excellent proposition for the most loyal supporters of the world, which was first proposed in 2015.
Review in Polish | Read full review
At the end of the day, I cannot recommend Dying Light 2, at least not at full price. While the game does feature a lot of extremely fun gameplay and one very cool idea, it’s hampered by too many weird problems (especially when you consider that one very cool idea is directly tied to this terrible, frustrating story) to be enjoyable all the way around.
Dying Light 2 is a pretty disappointing sequel to one of our all-time favourite zombie games. The parkour and combat here feels slightly off-point, light, floaty and unsatisfying. The first game's signature tense melee encounters feel diluted in a setting that gives you far too much space to catch your breath and night-time sorties lack the straight-up fear factor that made them so appealing first time around. With a lacklustre campaign that offers little to enjoy in the way of drama, some serious performance issues - which we hope will be patched day one - and an enormous world stuffed full of basic busywork padding, this is one zombie apocalypse we're finding quite hard to recommend.
Stay Human is a worthy sequel to the original version of Dying Light, one that’s improved excessively in many ways. The Parkour part of the gameplay is especially a great fit, mixed with huge environments and solid level design. If you liked the last game, you’ll definitely find a lot more to enjoy here, but even if you never played Dying Light before, the 2nd version still worth both your time and money.
Review in Persian | Read full review
In the end, Techland decided not to risk more than the account with Dying Light 2: Stay Human, with the pros and cons that this could mean. The Polish studio decided to take the already established foundation and take it to the next level, which resulted in one of the best zombie-themed games there can be. Within the niche that corresponds to it, Dying Light 2 is a fun experience, full of emotion that will undoubtedly delight fans of the genre and those who want to live one of those zombie nightmares that they have read or seen in other media. Dying Light 2 surpasses its predecessor and although it is not perfect and is limited in different sections, it manages to integrate all its parts properly without compromising its proposal, being coherent with itself and that is why it is a good video game.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Techland returns back to the zombie world, and further refines and expands the unique combination of parkour and zombie apocalypse. Now with a focus on player decisions in every direction.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a great sequel to a pretty good game. With fun traversal mechanics, combat encounters, and agonising choices in the story, it could be very much worth the playtime.
Dying Light 2 is a good game that happens to be the long-awaited sequel to a great game. There's still a ton of fun to be had, and the exploration alone is worth the price of admission. At the same time, it's bigger without necessarily being better. I had a lot of fun with it, but I can't help but feel more positive toward the original. If you're looking for a fresh new world to smash zombies in and you're burned out on Harran, then Dying Light 2 will scratch that itch well.
Delivering a huge improvement on the first title, but lacking with new features, Dying Light 2 Stay Human is quite fun, brutal, rewarding and a game of exceptional quality when it comes to the open world. Minor issues still exist here, but Techland successfully manages to live up to the hype surrounding the game.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Dying Light 2 doesn't bring the revolution to the genre, but it is a fine zombie action with a truly human face.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Dying Light 2: Stay Human largely improves upon the original in every way, and it will have you enveloped in the dying light of the City again and again as you glide, climb, and jump from roof to roof in search of the next thing to explore.
Despite a fluctuating narrative, Dying Light 2 proved to be a damn fun game with deeper, improved gameplay in every aspect—a well-executed more of the same. There's some disappointment over what Techland's game could and should have been after the announcement. The released title seems somewhat scaled back in its ambitions but remains a worthy successor to the parkour and zombie game from 2015.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Dying Light 2 is clearly inferior to its predecessor. Its story fails to excite, with disappointing characters and a soulless, depressing city that stands in stark contrast to Harran from Dying Light 1. However, the game excels brilliantly in gameplay, being even more enjoyable and fluid than the first, both in parkour and combat. For those seeking a deep post-apocalyptic experience, it’s important to note that this won’t be found here, but it’s still possible to have fun.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Dying Light 2: Stay Human is a game that successfully manages to marry all the cliches of open world/zombie games in a highly attractive and complete title. The open-world market may have been saturated for years now, but it's hard to see a similar title being released this year that's more fun than Dying Light 2. And I think that's what counts in the end.
Dying Light 2 is an immersive experience that rewards players with a touching character-driven story.