Dying Light: The Beast Reviews
Dying Light: The Beast is the title with which Techland makes up for much of what didn't work in its direct predecessor. Instead of getting lost in experimental ideas, the game focuses on its strengths: a dynamic parkour system that conveys a real sense of flow, intense close combat with tactical demands, and a game world that impresses with its density and atmosphere. The Beast mode in particular stands out as a gameplay and narrative enhancement. What might seem like a power fantasy gimmick on paper turns out to be a cleverly balanced element that creates new dynamics and at the same time complements the existing gameplay in a meaningful way. Although the world is no longer as high as in part 1 and the gameplay focus is more on horizontal exploration, this hardly has a negative impact. On the contrary, the reduction to more compact structures ensures better level design and less idle time. In terms of technology, structure, and narrative, Dying Light: The Beast is also superior to the “official” second part. The story remains compact, credible, and embedded in the environment without getting lost in meaningful monologues. At the same time, the crafting system offers depth without seeming overloaded. And if you want, you can spend hours in the world without ever feeling like you're being artificially held back. Dying Light: The Beast is not a complete reboot, but it is a liberating step back to the essentials – and thus exactly what fans have been wanting for years.
Review in German | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast marks a successful return to the franchise's horror roots, but it all feels a bit too familiar for my liking.
Dying Light: The Beast sticks to the franchise’s winning formula, featuring fluid parkour, intense combat, and the now-classic day-night cycle. The gameplay is polished, fun, and rewarding, with bosses that add variety and unlock new abilities. However, the story remains a weak point, with forgettable characters and a generic villain. The smaller map and the sense of recycled content reinforce the impression that it could have been a DLC for Dying Light 2. Still, it's a great title for fans, though it may disappoint players looking for innovation or a more engaging narrative.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Beyond its basic, cliché-ridden premise, the parkour-inspired mobility for thrilling escapes and the almost tactical combat for dismembering zombies make Dying Light: The Beast as entertaining as a Sunday afternoon action movie.
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Dying Light: The Beast won't be a favourite due to its lack of striking innovations, but Kyle Crane's return and the context it's built upon make it worth playing.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast provides highly entertaining and engaging gameplay elements, but falters with its lackluster narrative and mundane visuals.
Dying Light: The Beast marks a welcome return to the series’ roots, highlighting fluid parkour, brutal combat, and the fresh addition of “beast” powers. While dated mission design, forced grinding, lack of fast travel, and a weak narrative hold it back, the game remains content-rich and highly enjoyable, proving the Dying Light formula is still thrilling and remarkably effective today.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast, the franchise's peak, offers brutal combat, a modest open world, and intense nighttime chases featuring Kyle Crane. Despite a weak villain, repetitive bosses, few new enemies, and bugs, it is the definitive experience for zombie fans.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
If you loved DL2 for its systems, you may miss some of those, but for those who missed Crane-era action, this is a treat.
It’s clear that the studio still hasn’t returned to the form it lost somewhere around the release of Dying Light 2 Stay Human. Their latest title feels like a work heavily inspired by the cult classic from 2015 but at the same time produced by the same team that screwed up the sequel. The lack of fresh, successful gameplay ideas is very noticeable here.
Review in Polish | Read full review
This is a fun and entirely competent action game that will find both old and new fans thanks to its dedication to getting the basics right. It's a little unfocused, a little too in love with its own ideas, and many of its mechanics are so old they could have grandkids. But no other franchise out now delivers zombie thrills on this level, and certainly not with this kind of thought to making a fun experience with a lower barrier of entry.
A game that goes back to its roots incredibly well. Dying Light: The Beast captures the horror and survival horror RPG of the first game, and really helped to build where the future of the series is going.
Dying Light The Beast is recommended because it delivers on its promise to return the series to a darker, more tense, and brutal setting. It refines the foundations of the series and adds an interesting twist with the Beast System. This title will appeal to those who enjoyed the first Dying Light and anyone looking for an open-world survival horror game with personality. It's not perfect, but it is the most coherent and enjoyable installment.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast is a strong comeback for the series after the disappointment of the second installment. The game offers a short but thrilling story filled with impactful characters, with gameplay that blends action, parkour, and horror, bringing back the terrifying nighttime atmosphere the series is known for. The open world is smaller in scale but carefully designed, rich with details and side quests. The graphics have reached the highest level in the series’ history, despite some technical issues and the absence of ray tracing at launch. It can be said that The Beast represents the most cohesive and satisfying experience for fans of the series since its very beginning.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast succeeds in delivering fun based on the mechanics and gameplay style that made the series popular. However, it can't escape technical issues and the fact that it occasionally feels outdated.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast is a return to the zombie-slaughter, parkour-jumping form we needed, and it never disappoints. From huge hordes to new enemies, human and not, it’ll not only have you running for your life, but desperately seeking out shelter in a way the franchise has been missing for a while. Horror fan? Zombie fan? Parkour fan? All-out-carnage fan? You won’t regret getting Techland’s latest offering.
Dying Light: The Beast delivers refined parkour, intense melee combat, co-op gameplay, and a fully optimized experience with a dark, gripping story set in new regions.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Dying Light The Beast doesn't reinvent the formula, but it does bring a fresh take on zombie parkour with its Feral Mode, an open world as beautiful as it is lethal, and a co-op mode that turns survival into guaranteed laughs.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Dying Light: The Beast is undoubtedly worth buying when you consider that you're more likely to enjoy and appreciate the gameplay for how it was intended. The adrenaline rush that you get from beating up zombies and sprinting around the world doing parkour can definitely outweigh its flaws.
Dying Light: The Beast is an exciting, well-made, and very rewarding game in the series. It brings back the tension, fear, and creativity that made the first game so popular, but it also adds to the story, mechanics, and world immersion.