Dying Light: The Beast

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Survive the nights of an Alpine valley overrun by the infected.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
Stores: Steam, Epic
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (86% of 73,481 reviews); Metacritic 79 on PC; OpenCritic 81, with 80% of critics recommending it
Length: about 20 hours for the story; 40+ with side content
Players: 1 to 4 (online co-op)
Made by: Techland
Released: 2025

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What frightens In an Alpine valley overrun by the infected, slow hordes fill the streets by day, and when the sun sets faster, deadlier hunters come out, so every night turns into a run, a hiding place or a fight for your life.
Content: gore, violence, strong language, partial nudity, drug use.

Dying Light: The Beast is an open-world zombie game from Techland. Kyle Crane, the hero of the first Dying Light, escapes years of experiments and hunts for revenge across Castor Woods, an Alpine valley full of the infected, with first-person parkour, brutal melee and beast powers growing inside him.

About Dying Light: The Beast

Dying Light: The Beast is made by Techland and came out in September 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It is also sold on the Epic Games Store. It began as an expansion for Dying Light 2 and grew into a full game; versions for PS4 and Xbox One were planned and later cancelled.

You play Kyle Crane, the hero of the first Dying Light. After years held and experimented on, he escapes into Castor Woods, a rural tourist region in the Western Alps that is now overrun by the infected. He wants revenge on the Baron, the man responsible, and he is changing: the experiments left him with the DNA of something else, and he can switch into a beast mode that tears through enemies.

As in the earlier games, day and night are two different games. By day you climb, run across rooftops and fight through slow crowds with crafted weapons, guns and vehicles, scavenging as you go. At night the stronger infected come out, faster and deadlier, and you have to run, hide or fight for your life. Olivia, another survivor, sends Crane after the Chimeras, the Baron's experimental beasts, while the Sheriff keeps survivors together in the town hall. Reviewers praised the nights as tense as ever, the physical melee and the free movement through the woods, villages and farms of the valley.

It is an action game more than a quiet horror one, but the infected and the nights give it real frights. It suits players who liked the first Dying Light, and anyone who wants a big open zombie world to explore alone or with up to three friends.

How to play Dying Light: The Beast

Explore Castor Woods in first person, climbing, running and jumping across buildings and terrain.
Fight the infected with melee weapons, guns and crafted items, and scavenge for supplies by day.
Watch the clock: when night falls, stronger infected come out, so get to safety, hide or be ready to fight.
Use Crane's beast mode in hard fights to tear through enemies.
Invite up to three friends into your game for online co-op with shared progression.

Screenshots

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: in rain at night the player holds a lit bundle of dynamite and a spiked blade as infected feed in a street under a banner reading God is dead

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: the player checks a wristwatch at 19:00 above an Alpine village street full of wandering infected

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: a huge skinless infected with swollen growths on its shoulders crouches among pine trees

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: the player holds a bloody knife on a rooftop behind an armed soldier, looking over a valley of brick buildings

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: a candlelit banquet table under a chandelier in an opulent hall, a man in a pale suit standing at the far end

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: at night the player holds a machete atop a burning wreck as infected crowd below beside a railway in the forest

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot: in daylight the player fires an assault rifle at masked armed soldiers in an industrial yard

Tips

Keep an eye on the time and plan routes back to safety before dark.
Stay on rooftops when crowds fill the streets.
Craft and repair weapons when you can; a broken weapon at night is dangerous.
Use off-road vehicles to cross open ground and plough through hordes.
Save Beast Mode for the hardest fights, where bare-handed attacks and thrown objects clear a crowd fast.