Dying Light: The Beast Reviews
Dying Light: The Beast is a title that preserves the series core mechanics while adding new elements. It offers a valuable gesture to players in Turkey with Turkish subtitles and special pricing. Dismemberment effects, vehicle handling, and the return of firearms add variety to the game. However, the Beast Mode not feeling powerful enough, repetitive Quick Time Events, and a lackluster parkour experience in rural areas are among the elements that overshadow the game’s potential. A must-play for series fans, but a controversial experience for those expecting more, given its shortcomings.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
It’s not flawless — clunky writing, occasional bugs, and some difficulty spikes drag it down — but as a complete package, this is Techland’s best work since 2015. For anyone who ever whispered “Good night, and good luck” before sprinting into the dark in DL1, The Beast is a triumphant homecoming.
Dying Light: The Beast is a triumphant return to form for Techland, stripping away the RPG bloat of its predecessor to deliver a focused, terrifying, and adrenaline-fueled survival horror experience. The resurrection of Kyle Crane is handled with narrative weight and emotional resonance, anchored by Roger Craig Smith’s stellar performance. While human AI remains a weak link, the atmospheric setting of Castor Woods combined with the ferocious new 'Beast Mode' mechanics makes this arguably the most satisfying entry in the series. It’s a lean, mean, zombie-slaying machine that respects the player's time and skill.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast succeeds by understanding what made the original special and refining those elements rather than reinventing them. This is comfort food gaming at its finest: familiar mechanics executed with polish and focus.
Dying Light: The Beast is enjoyable; it builds on the same foundation introduced in the second game, with slight improvements to the movement that naturally made the parkour more enjoyable, in addition to the excellent combat and strong weapon variety. However, these strengths were met with a messy story and strange design choices that diminished the game's solid foundation.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast is a fun foray back into a world of survival horror. It is a little disappointing that there is only one way to gain XP in the game, and though going out at night is very risky, it is high risk/high reward. If you enjoyed the previous titles in the series, Dying Light: The Beast is a fun time, especially with friends.
The Beast is the kind of game that shows how Techland has learned from the past. It's denser, more cohesive, and more emotional. It recaptures the DNA of the first title, but matures its ideas with a dose of brutality that few studios manage to balance so naturally.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
When I say the series is going "back to the roots" with this game I don't just mean the setting. Everything in this game feels more grounded while at the same time all aspects of the gameplay have been refined and further developed. Dying Light: The Beast delivers the familiar parcours gameplay which still works brilliantly and expands it with incredibly entertaining boss encounters & cars that you can drive through Castor Woods. The controls are unfortunately a bit clunky and somewhat overwhelming but once you've gotten used to and internalized all the button inputs you'll be running across rooftops like a pro.
Review in German | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast stands out as a determined return to the series’ intense and grim atmosphere, featuring a more streamlined direction and a less elaborate narrative than in the past. The gameplay experience highlights parkour, visceral combat, and survival tension, all enhanced by a new rural setting and mechanics that emphasize both cooperative play and competitive dynamics. The introduction of “beastly” abilities and the revamped progression system add depth to multiplayer sessions, reaffirming co-op as one of the core pillars of the gameplay offering. From a technical standpoint, some issues persist, such as mission structure limitations and occasional bugs, while the storytelling takes a direct approach that favors adrenaline over complex plot-building. Overall, Dying Light: The Beast doesn’t rewrite the formula but solidifies what fans already love, with design choices that reward action, exploration, and teamwork, offering an effective reinterpretation of the series’ foundation.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A strong sequel and a quality addition to the open world action genre.
Dying Light: The Beast is a joy to play as a newcomer to the series. If you've been on the fence about the franchise, it serves as a fantastic entry point offering a decently sized map and an addictive gameplay loop that will see you loot, craft, and dismember zombies left and right.
Dying Light: The Beast is what Dying Light 2: Stay Human should have been. A new standalone episode of Techland's acclaimed horror saga, which recaptures the charm that made the original a beloved and fondly remembered cult classic. Despite a typical revenge story lacking in originality, Kyle Crane's journey is brutal, violent, and decidedly entertaining. A production that makes compactness and concreteness its winning weapons, reminding everyone that the night is always scary, but punishment is even scarier.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Though troubled and caught up in transition from expansion to a fully fledged game, Dying Light: The Beast still excels in the core fundamentals of combat and parkour. The story is forgettable, while the lack of night-time scenarios feels disappointing, but The Beast will give Dying Light fans more of what they most desire: decimating infected crowds and dashing across skylines with reckless abandon.
Dying Light: The Beast is a solid return for the franchise. It capitalizes on its historical strengths, such as fluid parkour, a thrilling day/night cycle, and brutal combat, and adds the welcome return of Kyle Crane. It's an adventure that works, that's fun to play, and that reminds us why the series made such an impression on gamers. However, its limitations are obvious. The story doesn't really take off, the secondary characters are too much in the background, the progression is simplified, and the new features are poorly exploited. The title is both a pleasant and frustrating experience. Pleasant because it's good at what it does, but frustrating because it never dares to do more.
Review in French | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast isn't a revolution for the franchise at all, but it doesn't need to be, either. This is simply Techland recognizing what fans loved most about the first game and leaning into it with the utmost confidence. We get Kyle Crane back, we get visceral combat, and pulse-pounding nights, all of which feel like a love letter to longtime players who've been asking for exactly this — more Dying Light.
Dying Light: The Beast builds on the strengths of the series to offer a respectable package.
Review in Greek | Read full review
Techland claws its way back with Dying Light: The Beast, an unflinching, beautifully grotesque evolution of its zombie saga. Stronger in identity and mechanics than its predecessor, it trades sprawling ambition for focused terror and ends up all the better for it. Occasional repetition and story safety hold it back from greatness, but when it hits, it devours.
Techland delivers a solid new entry with *Dying Light: The Beast*. While it falls short in innovation and balance at times, its strong story, improved visuals, and generous content offer plenty of zombie-slaying fun.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast is definitely a great game and strengthens the franchise further down the line
With immersive audio, intense encounters, and a sprawling urban playground, Dying Light: The Beast delivers a relentless, adrenaline-fueled survival experience that walks the line on being the best entry in the series, but falls flat when it comes to character development and technical performance.