A first-person view of a scene from Dying Light, with a character holding a baseball bat and a gas mask in a zombie-infested environment.

Dying Light gameplay image. First-person perspective, zombie in the foreground, weapon ready, other survivors in the background.

Dying Light gameplay: player kicking enemy off a rooftop. Burning city in the background. Close-up of melee weapon in the foreground.

Everything was perfectly normal in the Turkish city of Harran, until a mysterious and highly contagious virus swept through its streets, transforming much of the population into violent, flesh-hungry infected. In a desperate attempt to contain the outbreak, the government seals off the city and its surrounding areas, leaving Harran isolated from the outside world. Society collapses, supplies run scarce, and survival becomes a daily struggle.

In Dying Light, you play as Kyle Crane, an undercover operative working for the Global Relief Effort (GRE), sent into the quarantined zone to recover a sensitive file being used for blackmail. What begins as a covert mission quickly turns into a fight for survival as the true horrors of Harran reveal themselves. With danger lurking around every corner, staying alive soon becomes more important than completing your original objective.

Dying Light blends open-world exploration, intense first-person combat, and fluid parkour movement to create a dynamic survival experience. During the day, you'll scavenge abandoned buildings, rooftops, and streets for weapons, crafting materials, and supplies while facing slower but still deadly infected. When night falls, the game's tone shifts dramatically: the infected become faster, stronger, and far more aggressive, turning nighttime exploration into a high-risk, high-reward challenge.

The game's parkour system allows you to seamlessly traverse the city by climbing buildings, vaulting obstacles, and leaping across rooftops, giving you freedom to explore Harran from multiple vertical angles. These movement mechanics aren't just for exploration, they’re essential for combat, evasion, and survival. After all, mobility is your greatest weapon when you’re escaping a chase across the rooftops.

Progression is driven by experience earned through combat, parkour, and survival activities. As you level up, you unlock new skills that enhance your agility, combat effectiveness, and crafting capabilities, allowing you to tailor Kyle Crane to your preferred playstyle. Weapons can be crafted, upgraded, and modified, ranging from simple melee tools to powerful custom-built gear.

Dying Light also features robust multiplayer options. Team up with up to three other players in cooperative mode to explore the city, complete missions, and survive together. For a unique competitive twist, the asymmetric "Be the Zombie" mode lets one player take control of the Night Hunter, a powerful and agile infected, while others work together to hunt it down and destroy its nests.

Combining atmospheric storytelling, visceral combat, a day-night cycle that fundamentally alters gameplay, and deep progression systems, Dying Light delivers a tense and immersive open-world survival horror experience where every choice can mean the difference between life and death.

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Patch Notes

08/07/25 (Dying Light: Retouched Update - Hotfix)
15/10/21 (Dying Light: Be The Zombie Update Patch Notes)
25/11/20 (Czech subtitles added to Dying Light!)
1.25 - 20/02/20 (Patch 1.25 is now live!)
05/09/19 (Airdrop Reinforcements – the results are in!)
28/08/19 (Airdrop Reinforcements Event is live!)
27/08/19 (Are you prepared?)
1.19 - 27/08/19 (Patch 1.19 Release Notes)
#2 - 19/12/17 (Dying Light’s Content Drop #2 – “Silencer”)
#1 - 16/10/17 (Dying Light’s Content Drop #1 – “Lethal Inventions”)
#0 - 26/07/17 (Dying Light’s Content Drop #0)
1.12.2 - 13/06/17 (Patch 1.12.2 Release Notes)
20/04/17 (Patch Release Notes)
15/12/16 (Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition available for macOS users)
1.12 - 05/09/16 (Patch 1.12 Release Notes)
19/05/16 (Buggy comes to Developer Tools)
26/04/16 (New DLC bundles for Dying Light: The Following)
1.11.2 - 26/04/16 (Hotfix 1.11.2 release notes)
1.11.1 - 23/03/16 (Patch 1.11.1 release notes)
1.11.0 - 01/03/16 (Patch 1.11.0 release notes)
18/02/16 (Dying Light – Steam Workshop update)
1.10.1 - 12/02/16 (Hotfix 1.10.1)
09/02/16 (Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition now available!)
12/01/16 (Deathmatch Mode Comes to Dying Light | PvP Update for DL Dev Tools)
1.6.2 - 09/12/15 (Patch 1.6.2 release notes:)
#2 - 25/06/15 (Dying Light Developer Tools update #2 [Hotfix #1 - Edited})
1.6.1 - 02/06/15 (Patch 1.6.1)
1.6.0 - 26/05/15 (Patch 1.6.0 release notes)
#1 - 15/05/15 (Developer Tools Update #1)
1.5.2 - 30/04/15 (Patch 1.5.2 release notes - Crossfire performance fix)
14/04/15 (Dying Light Developer Tools and Steam Workshop [UPDATED])
1.5.1 - 10/04/15 (Patch 1.5.1 Release Notes)
1.5 - 10/03/15 (Patch 1.5 - 'Hard Mode' - release notes)
1.4.0 - 14/02/15 (1.4.0 Patch Notes)
1.3.0 - 03/02/15 (Multiplayer stability update - 1.3.0 patch notes)
1.2.1 - 30/01/15 (Patch 1.2.1 is now available)

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Comments on Dying Light

Phyranix

12-Oct-2022, 2:56 pm on dlcompare.fr

A simply excellent game, and even better with the dlc the following that continues the story. The graphics are simply magnificent for a game of 2015. I highly recommend it for people who like to let off steam on zombies

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Noone

03-Feb-2022, 12:49 am on dlcompare.fr

Doing it while waiting for the release of the 2, simply GENIUS!

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noburain

25-Jan-2022, 9:18 am on dlcompare.fr

Very good zombie game, almost no bugs encountered during my games, playable in solo but much more fun in co-op. The evolution of the gameplay is present, at the beginning, it's very complicated to have a gun with a lot of ammunition. The human enemies and the night zombies will offer you a real challenge. The story is not very deep but it offers a good base. It's a game that I recommend a lot especially for the price and the upcoming 2.

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Prophet

27-Mar-2015, 4:16 pm on dlcompare.fr

Excellent but you need a good computer if you want to enjoy the graphics

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Supported languages

	Interface	Audio	Subtitles
English
Spanish (Spain)
French
Italian
German
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Thai
Chinese (Simplified)
Russian
Korean
Dutch
Japanese
Chinese (Traditional)
Turkish
Czech
Spanish (Mexico)