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Dying Light

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Developer
Techland
Publisher
Techland
Franchise
Dying Light
Release date
Jan 26, 2015
Store page updated
Jul 1, 2026
Price
−80% $24.99 $4.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

89.9/ 100

Based on 433 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 93% of 1,452
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 95% of 495,298
“fun combat and parkour gameplay”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.30
Controls & feel +3.35
“parkour movement more human, natural, immersive, Mirror's Edge-esque” (73)

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Story & World
+2.67
Story +2.13
“story is great, gameplay and mechanics excellent” (36)

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Content Volume
+2.21
Volume +3.82

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Visuals & Sound
+3.69
Visuals +3.68

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Multiplayer
+2.67
Playing together +3.35

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Fairness
-2.55
Monetization +0.73

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Tech & Ops
+0.31
Performance -0.15
“optimization issues force game restart every 30 minutes” (19)
[h3]Dying Light 2 (а 2 бо пройшов з другого разу)[/h3] [i]Рецензія буде позитивною, хоча багато факапів траплялось під час проходження (тай не тільки зі мною).[/i] [i]Пробували пройти гру двічі, разок в 4 людини (IceAlice, Rodan, Сестра Хаос вітаннячко вам ❤️), інший в 3 (IceAlice, Vvrk привіт ❤️). Проходження в якому ми пилососили все що тільки існувало в грі (включно з квестами) просто в один момент зламалось і більше грати ми вже не могли. А якщо й могли то в 2 чи 3 людини, бо 4рта приєднатись більше не могла. Ніякі перевірки файлів чи перевстановлення ігор не допомагали, і ми просто попрощ

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
80%85%90%95%100%
Jan 2015Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,418 reviews, peak 73/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 433 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English27%
  • Russian17%
  • Chinese16%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Spanish8%
  • Turkish8%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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