Name: Dead Island Riptide
Brand: Deep Silver
SKU: 432
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.2 (111 reviews)

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Dead Island Riptide

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Zombies in Dead Island Riptide, illuminated by light, in the rain.

A zombie from Dead Island Riptide stands in a greenhouse. The zombie is deformed and wearing a protective suit.

A zombie in Dead Island Riptide is attacked by the player wielding claw weapons.

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Dead Island: Riptide is a survival-focused action RPG developed by Techland and released by Deep Silver as a direct continuation of Dead Island. The story picks up immediately after the events of the first game, placing the surviving immune characters into a new crisis after their attempted escape fails. They find themselves stranded once again within the Banoi archipelago, where another outbreak of the infection rapidly spreads across a different island.

The game builds on the open-world formula of its predecessor, emphasizing exploration, scavenging, and close-quarters combat against overwhelming zombie threats. Players must navigate flooded landscapes and ruined settlements, including dense jungle regions and the city of Henderson, all while managing limited resources and crafting improvised weapons to stay alive. Environmental hazards and shifting weather conditions add further unpredictability to survival.

A key aspect of Dead Island: Riptide is its cooperative gameplay, allowing players to team up and fight through missions together, including defensive scenarios where survivors must protect safe zones from waves of infected attackers. New playable characters and expanded progression systems add variety to combat styles and team strategies, encouraging different approaches to survival.

Although it does not drastically reinvent the original formula, Dead Island: Riptide refines and extends it, delivering a more expansive but familiar experience centered on tension, teamwork, and continuous survival against an ever-growing zombie threat.

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Categories : Action, First-Person Shooter, Horror
Editor : Deep Silver
Developer : Techland
Mode(s) : Solo, Multiplayer, Co-op
Release date : 31 May 2016
System Requirements
- Minimum
- OS: XP / Vista / 7
- Recommended
- CPU : Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD FX-8350
- RAM : 8 GB
- GPU : ® GeForce® GTX 780 / Radeon™ R9 290 (2GB VRAM)
- Storage : 10 GB
Age Rating
Steam Deck: Verified