Dying Light 2: Stay Human Reviews

Dying Light 2: Stay Human is ranked in the 63rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Feb 2, 2022

If you've played a zombie game in the past decade, this mishmash of tattered post-apocalyptic stereotypes will feel all too familiar

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5 / 10.0
Feb 17, 2022

Dying Light 2 is not a good game. It’s a frustrating medley of intriguing ideas and concepts buried under a thick, post-apocalyptic sludge of mediocrity. From dull combat and dull characters to an abundance of dull side quests, Dying Light 2 is one of the biggest disappointments of recent years.

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5 / 10
Feb 24, 2022

When every aspect of Dying Light 2 comes together, it's an experience to behold, but the problem is that it happens so rarely that the game struggles to justify the price of admission.

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Feb 2, 2022

Open world zombie Dying Light 2 from Techland nails its parkour traversal mechanics, but unfortunately gets little else right.

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52%
Mar 27, 2022

Dead inside. Enter at your own risk.

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Lee Mehr
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Mar 5, 2022

By trying to wrestle with a mixture of parkour/stealth/combat mechanics, a large open world, and reactive storytelling within a rotund narrative, it starts to buckle from its lesser elements and annoying technical problems.

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Nich Richie
Feb 21, 2022

Dying Light 2 starts strong with a satisfying gameplay loop, but overstays its welcome with a drawn-out narrative and irritating protagonist.

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VGC
Top Critic
Feb 2, 2022

Dying Light 2: Stay Human feels like it lost its direction somewhere along the way. It begins as an interesting zombie game wherein the threat feels tangible, your character feels weak, and the world feels primed for a dynamic story. However, the further you get into the game, a lot of its early ideas feel sidelined for a generic zombie plot, uninspiring combat, and the absence of any kind of danger.

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6 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2022

To some degree, this feels like an early access game in everything but the release schedule and pricing. It has its core down. It knows exactly what it wants to be. However, everything around that needs more polish before it’s ready for primetime. So, even though I didn’t really like my time with the game, I guess I believe in Dying Light 2? I truly think I’ll look back in a year or two — when memories have faded — and think past me was dead wrong for giving it such a low score.

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6 / 10
Feb 2, 2022

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.

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6 / 10.0
Feb 3, 2022

Dying Light 2 faces two big issues at present: technical glitches that can be fixed with a patch, and design choices that will be harder to deal with.

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6 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2022

Anybody familiar with Dying Light's design can see how bad an idea this is from miles off, and obviously part of the team did because this is the exact moment that the game introduces fast travel. But it doesn't matter. It was in Breath of the Wild. And that's one of the best games ever made.

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EGM
Top Critic
Feb 2, 2022

Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s enhanced parkour and intricate level design make for some of the most fun you can have moving through a video game world, and the hand-to-hand combat is simple but effective. Most impressive is the sense of scale and gravity that makes leaping between rooftops feel so death-defying. Unfortunately, its story wallows in post-apocalyptic clichés and misanthropy, and its choice-based narrative often drops its most interesting plot threads.

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Feb 2, 2022

With a slow plot and uninteresting characters, Dying Light 2: Stay Human's few redeeming qualities are what sets the franchise apart from other zombie games out there.

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6 / 10
Feb 2, 2022

Bugs, repetitive side content, bad storytelling, and the unfulfilled promise of its choice and consequence system leave Dying Light 2 unable to capitalise on the strength of its excellent parkour and combat mechanics.

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6 / 10
Feb 19, 2022
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Feb 7, 2022

Techland's horror sequel features crunchy combat and thrilling parkour, but buries its best bits with a clumsy story and open-world excess

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6 / 10
Feb 7, 2022

Techland's undead sequel improves upon the strongest element of its predecessor, but things like story and characters drag it down.

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6.5 / 10.0
Feb 10, 2022

What's the need to hurry? The game's not going anywhere. Let their problems be solved, and that's how you play.

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6.5 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2022

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.

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