Dying Light: The Beast Review
Official Score
Overall - 85%
85%
Dying Light: The Beast is another terrifying foray that provides a unique spin on the survival horror genre. However, its horde of bugged missions and objectives damage its otherwise immersive terror.
At first glance, we weren’t too sure what to expect with Techland Games’ Dying Light: The Beast…
A DLC turned full game, the sinking feeling that this title would be a shallow DLC experience was immediately shattered, providing a complete and ready experience just as capable as previous Dying Light entries.
Although things do seem shorter in the grand scheme of things…
Dying Light: The Beast Review
Taking on the role of Kyle Crane, this hero with DNA of both man and beast sets out to chase down the Baron – the mastermind behind torturous experiments on Castor Woods’ people.
The introduction of the new Beast ability and powers to Dying Light: The Beast adds a new level of brutality, gore, and badassery to the Dying Light experience.
While initially unable to control the transformation, eventually Kyle Crane learns to harness the power of the Beast.
Throwing one’s weapons aside and launching into a horde of undead with one’s bare hands is a thrill. From ripping limbs off to tearing bodies in half, Dying Light: The Beast is bloody glorious.
Combat was already an impressive offering in previous Dying Light entries, with both melee and weapon-based combat feeling rewarding and satisfying.
With Dying Light: The Beast, said Beast mode is yet another arrow in this title’s quiver.
Dying Light: The Beast is at its very best when the sun sets and the zombies go crazy.
The popular chase mechanic from the previous Dying Light makes its triumphant return, seeing zombies with heightened aggression and speed chasing the player through the streets, fields, and over rooftops.
Dying Light: The Beast’s moments of tension and terror are masters of horror – but you’ve got to be brave enough to face the terrors to see the best the game has to offer.
After all, it’s all too easy to avoid the nighttime altogether and enjoy an almost pleasant stroll through Dying Light: The Beast’s gorgeous open world.
Dying Light: The Beast’s scope and depth is at the top of its class.
Its softer approach to open-world design by focusing on familiar yet engaging objectives – all without spluttering icons and meaningless garbage – keeps the experience fresh.
Dying Light: The Beast truly excels in the execution of its puzzle design.
A near-perfect balance of complexity and simplicity ensures almost every puzzle is solved just before you get to that deadly “WTF is this stupid crap” stage.
That being said, there are a couple that may have you pulling out hairs – but they are few and far between.
Unfortunately, the unexpected scope of Dying Light: The Beast comes with several drawbacks…
For one, we lost count of the times we had to restart the game due to bugged missions.
Interaction points also wouldn’t activate; instances includes kill enemy objectives with no enemies in the area, along quest icons and locations not appearing.
None are game-breaking problems individually, but combined they could very well remove players from the immersive and often terrifying Dying Light experience.
Instead of enjoying a challenging mission objective or searching for something to progress, we instead had a niggling concern:
“Did we miss something, or is this another bugged quest?”
We truly hope the average player has a better experience, because Dying Light: The Beast is truly a fantastic game.
That being said, its technical shortcomings really hurt its journey.
Dying Light: The Beast is another terrifying foray that provides a unique spin on the survival horror genre. However, its horde of bugged missions and objectives damage its otherwise immersive terror.
Dying Light: The Beast Review
Reviewed On: PlayStation 5 (A digital code was provided)
Release Date: September 18, 2025
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Developer: Techland Games
Publisher: Techland Games
Aggregate Scores: Metacritic, CriticDB
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