Thanks to a hands-on opportunity during Summer Game Fest 2025 Play Days, I was able to play Techland’s Dying Light: The Beast, an upcoming action-adventure set in the Dying Light universe and starring returning character Kyle Crane. In Dying Light: The Following, players had to choose Kyle’s fate, either by nuking the city he tried to save or sacrificing himself to protect the citizens of Harran. Dying Light: The Beast reveals that Kyle chose the latter, which led to him being captured, tortured, and experimented on by a figure known as “The Baron” for the next 13 years.
By some twist of fate, Kyle eventually escaped and has now returned to exact payback on The Baron for everything he did to him. Something along the lines of “Revenge is gonna hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.” Or at least that’s how I think that’s how the saying goes.
At the start of the demo, I took control of Kyle, tasked with infiltrating a remote complex surrounded by zombies. It was here that I was introduced to the game’s mechanics. Of course, there was access to weapons, the drop kick, which is a staple of the...
