Dying Light: The Following Reviews

Dying Light: The Following is ranked in the 86th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
4 / 5.0
Jan 28, 2016

If you enjoyed the original Dying Light, The Following keeps its base gameplay but adds a fresh perspective with the wide-open rural setting, mysterious story, and the dune buggy. There's plenty to see and do here, though you'll have to look off the beaten path to find the most interesting bits. If I had some good fun as a dyed-in-the-wool zombie game naysayer, I'm sure you z-fans will appreciate it quite a bit. Techland definitely put in a ton of time and effort to give the popular Dying Light the kind of expansion it deserves.

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Fextralife
JudasBlitzkrieg
Top Critic
9 / 10
Feb 8, 2016

Overall, The Following does a great job of not only refining the Dying Light formula, but actively building on it. The area you're given to play in is huge, the new toys are supremely fun and the changes to the enemies make them a significant, but welcome challenge.

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9 / 10
Feb 8, 2016

Completely changing the environment that you play in and the way in which you get around that world was a bold move by Techland, but they've taken the challenge in their stride, and created something which is often just pure fun to play. If you're a fan of Dying Light, then The Following is a near essential expansion.

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ACG
Top Critic
Buy
Feb 9, 2016
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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

‎A massive expansion that brings Dying Light up to date and, in addition, gives us the opportunity to relive our zombie-killing adventures in a much more open and colorful environment.‎

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GRYOnline.pl
Top Critic
7.5 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

One of the most interesting zombie games has just seen a significant expansion. The Following tries not so much to base itself on Dying Light as to push it in a new direction, although at times it probably forgets that not every change is a good change.

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7 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

Mad Max meets Zombie Apocalypse!

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8.4 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

As with most (if not all) expansions, Dying Light: The Following probably won't win over those who didn't enjoy the original game. At the same time, it offers a lot of fun and a few shiny new toys (such as the buggy) to everyone else who greatly appreciated Dying Light, and it does so with great value thanks to a strong longevity for its price. Unless you really dislike zombies, The Following is a worthy purchase.

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Recommended
Feb 9, 2016

Dying Light's outdoorsy expansion flees the city but delivers the same mix of dogged charm and compulsion.

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9 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

The Following was larger than I expected, and it maintains a high level of quality throughout. Being pared down from the bloat of Dying Light earns it more moment-to-moment excitement, and I greedily consumed it over the weekend. The last few minutes have me pondering the future of what's clearly going to become a franchise, and I'm ready for whatever Techland brings next.

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Feb 9, 2016

The fetch quests need to go. Or they need to be dressed up better. Either way. I thought Dying Light was over-reliant on them in its first incarnation, and that was in a pre-Witcher 3 world. Playing The Following, I often found myself pulling open the map, looking at how far I needed to go to reach any objectives, and simply quitting for the night. Not a great feeling.

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Feb 9, 2016

Dying Light on its own was a great game - now with the Enhanced Edition, more story, more to do, and more guts to splatter - it takes an already great thing and makes it even better. There's tens of hours to be had exploring, completing side quests, and just breaking bones and slashing zombies, and that's what makes this one the definitive version - all the right additions, nothing really holding it back. Dying Light: The Following and the Enhanced Edition will go down as not just a zombie game done extraordinarily well, but a complete experience that is a love letter to players in a time when it seems ok to be happy with less than great.

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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Feb 9, 2016

A sprawling, satisfying expansion to an already good game.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

Dying Light may not be the best of the best when it comes to open world games but with The Following, it's proven to be pretty damn fun. Whether you're a new player or seasoned veteran, Dying Light: The Following is fun for everyone.

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IGN
Top Critic
8.8 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2016

Dying Light: The Following manages to include a new fun-filled environment to explore along with a vehicle to do so that mesh together well with a story that's slow to start but ends with a powerful punch.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 10, 2016

‎At the end of the day, ‎‎The Following‎‎ is everything we could expect from the ‎‎Dying Light‎‎expansion, a memorable and extremely fun installment of last year's best zombie game because it continues the story of survival and follows to the letter a solid formula that we thought was appropriate. ‎‎The Following‎‎ debuts with the Enhanced Edition of ‎‎Dying Light,‎‎which means that the base game received a lot of quality improvements. The best news for the owners of the original game is that they will have such a version without paying. On PC, the update is out of the box, while on console the additions should be ready as an additional downloadable package. The release of ‎‎The Following‎‎ is a worthy time to return to the best zombie survival and action game of 2015.‎

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Gameblog
Top Critic
8 / 10
Feb 10, 2016

This one allows a certain let off steam and adds a new element of management and gameplay of the most joyful, whether you are alone or with others. An essential for lovers of Dying Light, which may disorient them and occupy them for a good little while.

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Spaziogames
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Feb 10, 2016

It lasts a lot, adds interesting gameplay elements (the buggy above all), can count on a plot much more interesting than expected and offers a level of difficulty calibrated upwards that will please many fans of Dying Light.

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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 10, 2016

Amazing, beautiful, fun. One of the best zombie game that has ever created and one of the best games of this generation. Don't miss Dying Light: The Following!

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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 11, 2016

The Following is an example for anyone who wants to develop additional content. A year after the release, the development team gives us a new adventure that, in terms of quantity and extension, has little to envy to the original one. The plot, mysterious and intriguing, lets us discover little by little the customs of the Sons of the Sun, a sect of fanatics immune to contagion, and puts us in front of interesting personalities and revelations.

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