Days Gone

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Ride a drifter's bike through an Oregon overrun by Freaker hordes.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation
Stores: Steam, GOG
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (93% of 117,913 reviews); 4.66 of 5 on the PlayStation Store (180,338 ratings); Metacritic 76 on PC
Length: a long open-world story
Players: 1
Made by: Bend Studio
Released: 2019

On GOG: one of the GOG horror games.

No. 10 of the snow horror games · No. 20 of the small town horror games · No. 6 of the cave horror games · No. 8 of the horror games set in mines

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What frightens Hordes of hundreds of Freakers pour through canyons, sawmills and caves after you, and at night the woods fill with them; a single wrong turn on your bike can end with a swarm at your heels.
Content: gore, intense violence, strong language, drug references, sexual themes, nudity.

An open-world action game by Bend Studio set two years after a pandemic turned most people into Freakers. You play biker and bounty hunter Deacon St. John, scavenging parts, crafting weapons and fuel, and riding the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. The fear comes from the hordes: hundreds of Freakers moving as one, faster than you can shoot.

About Days Gone

Days Gone came out on PlayStation 4 in 2019 and on PC on 17 May 2021, made by Bend Studio and published by PlayStation. The PC version includes New Game Plus, Survival Mode, Challenge Mode and extra bike skins. Days Gone Remastered followed on PlayStation 5 on 25 April 2025, made with Climax Studios, with DualSense haptics, quality and performance modes, and new accessibility options such as high contrast, game speed and UI narration.

You play Deacon St. John, a former outlaw biker who now hunts bounties in a forest, mountain and lava-field wilderness two years after the outbreak. You search abandoned towns and camps for parts, craft bandages, bombs and weapons, keep your Drifter bike fuelled and repaired, and do jobs for survivor camps while human gangs and the infected fight over what is left.

Its horror is the horde. Freakers wander alone or in small packs by day, but in places they gather by the hundred and move as a single flood of bodies. Stumbling into one, or being chased through a dark mill by one at night, is a real fright, and clearing one takes planning, traps, chokepoints and a route out. Night, rain and snow change how they hunt.

The remaster adds Horde Assault, an arcade survival mode in which bigger hordes come at you across four of the map's regions and you play for a high score.

It plays as a long story-driven action adventure rather than a horror game you hide through: you are well armed by the middle of it. It suits players who want an open world to roam with the undead as the main threat and the tension of a horde that can swallow you. A first run through the main story takes about 35 to 40 hours.

How to play Days Gone

Ride your bike between camps and missions, watching the fuel gauge and repairing it with scrap.
Search buildings and wrecks for parts to craft bandages, molotovs, traps and ammunition.
Sneak around or fight Freakers and gang members.
Do jobs for survivor camps to earn credits and trust for better guns and bike upgrades.
Scout a horde before you take it on, set traps and pick a route to fall back along.

Screenshots

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon runs across a field under power pylons as a horde of Freakers pours after him

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon readies a molotov as pale Freakers charge at him

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon runs with a rifle in the rain as Freakers pour off burning freight cars on a railway bridge

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon rides his motorbike through a meadow with a snowy mountain behind

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon fires at a gang of armed raiders in a muddy swamp camp

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon fires a pistol from his bike at Freakers on a foggy forest road at night

Days Gone screenshot: Deacon stands in a grassy clearing looking over the forest toward a snowy mountain

Tips

Always park your bike facing an escape route; a horde will not wait for you to turn around.
Refuel whenever you pass a gas can or pump.
Avoid hordes until you have upgraded weapons and plenty of explosives.
Move around at night with care: more Freakers are out and they are bolder.

Questions

Is Days Gone a horror game?

It is an open-world action game with horror in its hordes: huge swarms of infected that can overwhelm you, especially at night.

What can you play Days Gone on?

PC on Steam and GOG, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 as Days Gone Remastered.

Does Days Gone have multiplayer?

No, it is a single-player game.

How long is Days Gone?

About 35 to 40 hours for the main story, by HowLongToBeat's count.

What is new in Days Gone Remastered?

On PlayStation 5 it adds Horde Assault, an arcade mode of bigger hordes played for a high score, along with DualSense haptics, quality and performance modes and new accessibility options.