Dying Light: The Beast
Dying Light: The Beast is a 2025 survival horror video game developed and published by Techland. Originally envisioned as a downloadable content pack to Dying Light 2 Stay Human, The Beast was released as a standalone game for Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on September 18, 2025, ports for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were in development, before their cancellation on July 14, 2026.
Role-playing (RPG)Adventure
- Time to beat
- about 15.7 hours
Overview
Dying Light: The Beast is a 2025 survival horror video game developed and published by Techland. Originally envisioned as a downloadable content pack to Dying Light 2 Stay Human, The Beast was released as a standalone game for Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on September 18, 2025, ports for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were in development, before their cancellation on July 14, 2026.
Dying Light: The Beast is an action-adventure video game played from a first-person perspective. The game is set in Castor Woods, a popular rural tourist destination located in the Western Alps which is now overrun by zombies. Players can explore this open world using Kyle Crane's parkour skills, or driving a 4x4 vehicle. Like the first game, the zombies are slow when exposed to sunlight, but they become more aggressive and hostile at night. Crane can utilize a variety of melee weapons and firearms to defeat enemies, as well as superhuman abilities, allowing him to run and sprint faster than typical human beings.
Kyle Crane, the protagonist of the first game, returns as the protagonist of The Beast. After his transformation into a sentient volatile at the hands of the Mother in Dying Light: The Following, Crane was hiding from the Global Relief Effort (GRE) for 8 years, but was captured and taken prisoner by a mysterious villain called the Baron, who we later learn is named Marius Fischer. After being subjected to 13 years of torture and experimentation by the Baron, Crane, who now has a mix of volatile and human DNA, escapes captivity and swears revenge on the Baron, while also having to fight the beast within.
The Beast was originally intended to be the second downloadable content pack for Dying Light 2 Stay Human. After the pack's main story and its script were leaked by a dataminer in April 2023, the team pivoted to turn it into a separate game. Techland described the game as a compact experience, being shorter than both Dying Light and Dying Light 2. Unlike Dying Light 2, the game features a more linear narrative structure. As reported by Tymon Smektala, Techland's franchise director, the decision to bring back Crane as the game's protagonist was met with enthusiasm within the studio.
Official trailer
Announcement Trailer. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
- Developer
- Techland
- Publisher
- Techland
- Series
- Dying Light
- Engine
- C-Engine
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Age rating
- ESRB M
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Local multiplayer
- No
- Online multiplayer
- Yes
- Co op
- Yes
- Age ratings
- PEGI
- 18
- CERO
- Z
- GRAC
- 19+
- ESRB
- M
- CLASS IND
- 18
- USK
- 18
- ACB
- R 18+
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PlayStation 5 | Worldwide | 2025-09-18 |
Trophies
- Difficulty
- 3 out of 10
- Playthroughs for platinum
- 1
- Online trophies
- 0
Playable today
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Has online features | Yes |
Credits
- Publisher
- Techland
- Developer
- Techland
- Released
- 2025-09-18
- Age rating
- ESRB M
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 15.7 hours
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