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Dying Light 2: Stay Human
Critics Consensus (Skip It)
Dying Light 2 is rough around the edges, features an underwhelming story, and is replete with painful bugs. But Techland has created an exciting sandbox with outstanding parkour and combat that makes it really fun to play.
Game Info
The last great human settlement exists within an unforgiving, infected world. Exceptional agility and combat skills make you a powerful ally and a valuable commodity. With your unique abilities you have the power to be an agent of change within this decaying metropolis. Use it wisely.
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Total Reviews: 123
RELEASE DATES:
GENRES:
- Action, RPG, Horror
DEVELOPER(S):
- Techland
PUBLISHER(S):
- Techland Publishing
SERIES/FRANCHISE:
- Dying Light
GAME MODES:
- Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player
GAME ENGINE:
- C-Engine
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RATING & REVIEWS
Ratings & Reviews
123
Critic Reviews
77
Average Critic Score
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CRITIC REVIEWS
All reviews are from professional critics. Learn more about the critics VSG aggregates.
High Score
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Median Score
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Low Score
40%
What did you think of Dying Light 2: Stay Human?
Player Reviews1 Votes
6.1
Travis Northup (IGN)
February 2, 2022
7/10
Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an ambitious zombie action adventure that’s packed with top-notch parkour, an awesome open world, and every painful bug in the book.
Mack Ashworth (Game Revolution)
February 2, 2022
6.5/10
While Dying Light 2 does a lot right with its gameplay and new-gen presentation, it’s still a far cry from zombie gaming greatness. The weak story, uninspired mission design, limitations on initial player skills, and bugs let it down in a big way. Sure, a lot of this will be easy to ignore when fighting the undead as a four-man squad, but “it’s fun with friends” is an excuse that can only get you so far.
Andrew Reiner (Game Informer)
February 2, 2022
9.5/10
Techland has crafted a monster of a sequel that is bigger and better in almost every way.
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Score Ranges
Read the Reviews (123 total)
| Outlet | Author | Score | Date | Quote | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3DNews | Михаил Пономарев | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 doesn’t bring the revolution to the genre, but it is a fine zombie action with a truly human face. | Read review |
| ACG | Jeremy Penter | Not Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| Atomix | Rodolfo León | 88 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a fantastic title that manages to improve almost every aspect of the original game. It is one of the most ambitious and beautiful open world games I have ever played, and if you were a fan of the first game, then you should definitely give this one a try. Not only does it blend combat, exploration and storytelling in a superb way, but it also delivers an unforgettable experience that will remain in my heart for years to come. | Read review |
| Attack of the Fanboy | Diego Perez | 4.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a bigger and bolder sequel that improves upon the original in every way. Not only does it have one of the most enjoyable traversal systems in any game ever, but it also provides players with interesting characters and quests to break up all the running. | Read review |
| AusGamers | Steve Farrelly | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human will divide fans, as the first game did. With that there’s no question, but for mine it is an incredibly rewarding game that has the best parkour ever seen or experienced in games, and the playground to match it. Plus the zombies. So many (awesome) zombies. On Hard I still found it a little on the easy side, but the length and depth of missions and the world more than made up for it. And if you let the game bite you, as I did, it’ll grab and transform you for more than the next little while. | Read review |
| BaziCenter | Morteza Mousavi | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Stay Human is a worthy sequel to the original version of Dying Light, one that’s improved excessively in many ways. The Parkour part of the gameplay is especially a great fit, mixed with huge environments and solid level design. If you liked the last game, you’ll definitely find a lot more to enjoy here, but even if you never played Dying Light before, the 2nd version still worth both your time and money. | Read review |
| Bazimag | Mohammadreza Zare Rafee | 7 / 10 | 02-10-2022 | Dying Light 2’s biggest problems stem from its world building and lack of compelling characters that occupy this world which is a big problem because revolutionizing the storytelling in video games was one the key points of the game’s promotions. On the other hand, the gameplay is full of fun and entertaining mechanics that can keep you playing for hours trying to utilize its many different mechanics in new and innovative ways. | Read review |
| But Why Tho? | Arron Kluz | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Its combat is as brutal as one would hope while bringing the mechanical density and numerous options to engage any type of player. Its narrative is gripping with veins of humanity throughout that make it nearly impossible not to get invested in it. While sometimes feeling a bit sluggish or as though they just need a tiny bit more tuning, its new mechanics have brought new life to the series in a monumental way. | Read review |
| CGMagazine | Khari Taylor | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human is a bold, doubling-down of all the elements that made the first game great, while also making ambitious strides in its open-world gameplay and branching narrative elements. | Read review |
| Chalgyr’s Game Room | Pierre-Yves Lanthier | 9 / 10 | 02-03-2022 | In a few short words, Dying Light 2: Stay Human surpassed my expectations. For those that have been on the fence as to whether or not make a return to this world after the first I would highly recommend it. Combining the fast paced parkour features of the first in a world that allows you to take it at your own pace was a great combination that I’ll not soon be leaving as I continue through my version of the journey wrapping up side stories left behind. | Read review |
| Checkpoint Gaming | Charlie Kelly | 9 / 10 | 02-03-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a more than worthy follow up and worth the wait. Whilst not necessarily reinventing the wheel, it excels in being one of the best versions of the open-world formula we’ve known for some time. With silky-smooth parkour and combat mechanics, and plenty of things to see and do, I highly recommend the plunge into The City. Where there’s slight polishing to still be done and the story at times leaves a bit to be desired, shining moments and performances make it all the more worthwhile, standing as a stronger entry than its predecessor. This has become my favourite free roam zombie game to date and has me constantly itching to jump back in and tool around some more in its playground. Not bloody bad, Techland. | Read review |
| COGconnected | Rhett Waselenchuk | 90 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | I’ve loved my time with Dying Light 2. While it undoubtedly could use a patch or two, the foundation that’s been laid for the next five years is solid. | Read review |
| Daily Star | Unknown | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | A game that leaves you with a constant but strangely addictive edge-of-the-seat sense of stress like a strong horror movie. | Read review |
| DarkZero | Dominic Sheard | 8 / 10 | 03-04-2022 | Fun is subjective, of course, but when it comes to video games, we mostly play them for the fun or the experience it offers. | Read review |
| Destructoid | Chris Carter | 7.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is safe in some respects, and bold in others; like its propensity to lean into some arcadey notions. The sandbox is the true heart of Dying Light 2. Not the characters, or the story, but the mere act of running around like an idiot, whether you’re doing errands or not. | Read review |
| Digital Trends | Otto Kratky | 3 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | With a slow plot and uninteresting characters, Dying Light 2: Stay Human’s few redeeming qualities are what sets the franchise apart from other zombie games out there. | Read review |
| DualShockers | Kyle Knight | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | There’s no doubt about it, Dying Light 2: Stay Human is a sequel of epic proportions. Everything fans loved about the original title is still very much present, but now with a bigger story, new features, and a vast open-world filled with areas to explore and loot. | Read review |
| Easy Allies | Ben Moore | 3.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is an enjoyable and ambitious game that unfortunately bites off more than it can chew. | Read review |
| EGM | Michael Goroff | 6 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s enhanced parkour and intricate level design make for some of the most fun you can have moving through a video game world, and the hand-to-hand combat is simple but effective. Most impressive is the sense of scale and gravity that makes leaping between rooftops feel so death-defying. Unfortunately, its story wallows in post-apocalyptic clichés and misanthropy, and its choice-based narrative often drops its most interesting plot threads. | Read review |
| Eurogamer | Martin Robinson | Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Techland’s vast blockbuster buckles under its own ambition and lacks in innovation, but makes up for it with outstanding parkour and combat. | Read review |
| Everyeye.it | Alessandro Bruni | 7.6 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human is a title that struggles to bear the weight of its ambitions, as a result of a development path that in all probability turned out to be bumpier than expected. | Read review |
| Expansive | Jay Jones | Recommended | 02-22-2022 | Dying Light 2 is vast, enjoyable and definitely worth playing. It’s hard to recommend against some of the titles it’s currently up against (and likely others to come) but what it offers is mostly polished content with a solid gameplay flow. Repetition rears its head quickly, though, combat regularly frustrated me, and I definitely found myself more tuned out than in with the game’s story. | Read review |
| FingerGuns | Rossko Keniston, Miles Thompson | 8 / 10 | 03-10-2022 | Dying Light 2 ups the ante from the original in almost every way, offering more satisfying parkour, combat and enough jump scares to make you never want to walk in the darkness ever again. A worthy and essential sequel. | Read review |
| Game Informer | Unknown | 9.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Techland has crafted a monster of a sequel that is bigger and better in almost every way. | Read review |
| Game Rant | Dalton Cooper | 2.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Open world zombie Dying Light 2 from Techland nails its parkour traversal mechanics, but unfortunately gets little else right. | Read review |
| Game Revolution | Mack Ashworth | 3.25 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | While Dying Light 2 does a lot right with its gameplay and new-gen presentation, it’s still a far cry from zombie gaming greatness. The weak story, uninspired mission design, limitations on initial player skills, and bugs let it down in a big way. Sure, a lot of this will be easy to ignore when fighting the undead as a four-man squad, but “it’s fun with friends” is an excuse that can only get you so far. | Read review |
| Gamefa | مصطفی زاهدی | 8.5 / 10 | 02-15-2022 | Dying Light 2 is an attractive and contentious free world game that retains most of the positive features of the first version and injects new role-playing elements. | Read review |
| GameGrin | Dylan Pamintuan | 9.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a great sequel to a pretty good game. With fun traversal mechanics, combat encounters, and agonising choices in the story, it could be very much worth the playtime. | Read review |
| GameMAG | Unknown | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | As with the original game, Dying Light 2 Stay Human will find its share of audience, while the teams at Techland will continue to expand their vision. The solid base is already there, and it would be interesting to see how the game will turn out in 5 years time. | Read review |
| GamePro | Dennis Michel | 78 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a fantastic game in its best moments, but leaves an enormous amount of potential as the playing time increases. | Read review |
| Gamer Escape | Josh McGrath | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | The story here pulled me in quickly, and is well worth paying attention to. Exploration with parkour is just plain fun. The game doesn’t feel like it’s forcing the player to explore and complete every marker on the map, but rather giving the player options for how they want to approach the game. The survival aspects aren’t overwhelmingly hardcore, but feel tuned to provide the perfect amount of tension. | Read review |
| Gamers Heroes | Johnny Hurricane | 7 / 10 | 02-03-2022 | Dying Light 2 is so close to being great, but it is held back by a myriad of technical issues. It’s fine with friends, but wait for some patches if you intend to fly solo. | Read review |
| Gamersky | 心灵奇兵 | 7.5 / 10 | 02-04-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a satisfactory but unremarkable sequel in the franchise. It is nearly impeccable in terms of its parkour gameplay and the narrative driven by scene exploration. However, the awkward performance and lack of details make the story plot mediocre. It should have been a much better game. | Read review |
| GameSkinny | Unknown | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 does so much so well. You never know what you are going to get when you venture out into Villedor. | Read review |
| GameSpace | Kris Brooks | 8.5 / 10 | 02-06-2022 | Gamer is more than plentiful these days with all types of genres ranging from first-person shooters, MMO’s, and every game/movie adaption you can shake a stick at. It is nice to see a Gem among them shine so brightly. This title features a bit of everything I have come to admire about other games and rolled into a creepy yet satisfying game. Dying Light 2 Staying Human has earned the title of the favorite game of 2022 at this time. | Read review |
| GameSpew | Unknown | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Combining engaging combat, some of the most thrilling traversal you’ll find in a video game, and a truly rich narrative, there’s very little to find fault with in Dying Light 2: Stay Human. | Read review |
| GameSpot | Mark Delaney | 6 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a perplexing game. Its story and characters are headache-inducing, and it appears to lack polish in many areas. But even a dozen hours after I rolled credits, I’ve found myself going back to the game to do another parkour challenge, rummage through another abandoned science lab, or just see if I can get from Point A to Point B without ever hitting the ground. | Read review |
| GamesRadar+ | Unknown | 3.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 offers a great open world playground for zombie survival, but lacks an impactful story or meaningful choices. | Read review |
| GameWatcher | Bogdan Robert Mateș | 7.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 was my first contact with the series and it can certainly be an exhilarating open-world game. Its gorgeous city, intense chases, fluid parkour, and visceral, meaty combat are well worth experiencing. Although they never completely overshadow its accomplishments, boring gear, repetitive side missions, and a story that never finds its focus do, unfortunately, keep it away from greatness. But, if you keep some of your expectations in check, all these missteps can easily be drowned in an ocean of freshly-cut zombie limbs and peaceful paragliding. | Read review |
| GameXplain | Adam Conner | Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| Gaming Nexus | Eric Hauter | 9 / 10 | 02-09-2022 | With a beautiful open world, great narrative side missions, and enough tension to raise even the calmest player’s blood pressure, Dying Light 2 wrings a mountain of slick fun out of the most dire of settings. Scary to play solo and a ton of fun in multiplayer, Dying Light 2 will keep you entertained for a long time with its fantastic mission structure and groundbreaking day/night mechanics. It took a while, but Dying Light 2 was worth the wait. | Read review |
| GamingBolt | Shubhankar Parijat | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is often let down by clumsy writing, unbalanced progression, clunky combat, and technical issues, but its excellent parkour, engaging choice and consequence mechanics, and the expertly realized threat of the Infected make for a fun open world free-running romp nonetheless. | Read review |
| GamingTrend | David Burdette | 85 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human may begin like the shuffling corpses you run into during the day, but evolves into the ferocious horde you encounter in the shadows of night. With an engaging gameplay loop of parkour and combat, the exploration of Villedor is something you’ll enjoy for hours on end, and with up to three friends at that. Yeah, it may take a little bit to get hooked, but once you’re infected, it’ll be all you can do to stay human. | Read review |
| GBAtemp | Prans Dunn | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human lives up to the expectations by delivering an engaging gameplay in a detailed open world complimented by the series’ characteristic parkour mechanic that neatly blends in the exploration and combat. | Read review |
| Geek Culture | Jake Su | 8.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Improving upon its predecessor in all aspects, Dying Light 2 presents a compelling argument that we humans are the biggest threat, even when the undead roams the world. | Read review |
| Generación Xbox | AdrianGX | 8.8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is no longer the surprise the first entry was, but it manages to enhance the formula that turned it great and delivers a story that is both action-packed and fun. | Read review |
| God is a Geek | Chris White | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | While Dying Light 2 may not feel like a massive step up, it’s still tons of fun, and the story is a powerful and engaging one, vastly improved from the original. | Read review |
| GRYOnline.pl | DM | 8.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Techland has managed to create something more important than just another well-written video game. Behold, a convincing open world that encourages you to discover its secrets and provides lots of fun, regardless of what you’re doing. Dying Light 2 isn’t perfect, but it perfectly makes up for its few flaws. A sequel better than the original! | Read review |
| Guardian | Keith Stuart | 2 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | If you’ve played a zombie game in the past decade, this mishmash of tattered post-apocalyptic stereotypes will feel all too familiar | Read review |
| Hardcore Gamer | Unknown | 3.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | This is one zombie title worth exploring; just know it’s not the diamond it should be. | Read review |
| Hey Poor Player | Francis DiPersio | 4.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | It’s been a long road to release for Dying Light 2, and at times its future seemed uncertain. However, having braved the ruins of Villedor for this review, I’m happy to report that Techland’s long-awaited follow-up to their survival horror RPG is a smashing success. With its mix of gripping narrative, hard-hitting combat, and exhilarating exploration, Dying Light 2 is a spectacular sequel that breathes new life into the franchise. | Read review |
| Hobby Consolas | David Martinez | 94 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | A great role-playing game, which bets on a very careful narrative, unique mechanics of navigation and combat, and a terrifying atmosphere. Dying Light 2 is a colossal game that will become a reference of the genre, in terms of the player’s decisions. | Read review |
| IGN | Travis Northup | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an ambitious zombie action adventure that’s packed with top-notch parkour, an awesome open world, and every painful bug in the book. | Read review |
| IGN Italy | Alessandro Alosi | 8.2 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | A good action game full of content and potential, but it would benefit from a vigorous technical smoothing. | Read review |
| IGN Middle East | Zaher Albalbisi | 6.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | it’s hard to fall in love with a game that’s filled with bugs and tech issues, an average story, and some lazy design aspects like bringing the same enemies and weapons over and over again just with a different level every time, still, though, when it comes to parkour, this game is one of the best. | Read review |
| Jump Dash Roll | Derek Johnson | 5 / 10 | 02-24-2022 | When every aspect of Dying Light 2 comes together, it’s an experience to behold, but the problem is that it happens so rarely that the game struggles to justify the price of admission. | Read review |
| Just Push Start | Oliver East | 4 / 5 stars | 02-03-2022 | Pushing past the first couple hours of clumsy stumbling around and getting to grips with the parkour mechanics and Dying Light 2 becomes a pleasure to play. Being able to take any path from A to B is extremely rewarding, and it only improves as skills and such are unlocked. Players are kept on their toes, literally – at least in game, by the stark differences between day and night. There is a serious amount of content, with side missions and areas to explore on top of the meaty main campaign. Much like the original Techland has already promised years of content and, with 3 patches already released (including a day 0 patch) there is no doubting it’ll keep fans pleased and playing for hours upon hours upon hours. | Read review |
| JVL | L_sK | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | After six years of waiting and promising, the final version of Dying Light: Stay Human unfortunately does not look like what we had seen and foreshadowed a very great potential game. | Read review |
| KnowTechie | Josh Knowles | 7.8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | I’m going out on a limb to say Dying Light 2 isn’t for everyone. There is a bit of frustration you need to initially power through. | Read review |
| Kotaku | Zack Zwiezen | Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 doesn’t tell a great or original zombie story, and it features a lot of big choices that mostly amount to nothing. But that’s fine, because where Dying Light 2 succeeds is in the smaller moments between the big ones. A fight against a horde of undead that you hadn’t planned on and might not survive. Escaping a tough enemy using all the parkour moves at your disposal. Barely surviving a nighttime excursion gone wrong and breaking your last good sword in the process. Or just swinging around, looking for the next place to explore but getting too distracted by how much fun it is to move around this place that you just…don’t stop. | Read review |
| LevelUp | Víctor Rosas | 8.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | In the end, Techland decided not to risk more than the account with Dying Light 2: Stay Human, with the pros and cons that this could mean. The Polish studio decided to take the already established foundation and take it to the next level, which resulted in one of the best zombie-themed games there can be. Within the niche that corresponds to it, Dying Light 2 is a fun experience, full of emotion that will undoubtedly delight fans of the genre and those who want to live one of those zombie nightmares that they have read or seen in other media. Dying Light 2 surpasses its predecessor and although it is not perfect and is limited in different sections, it manages to integrate all its parts properly without compromising its proposal, being coherent with itself and that is why it is a good video game. | Read review |
| Marooners’ Rock | Andrew Peggs | 8.3 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Techland’s game Dying Light 2 provides an entertaining and satisfying continuation. While the game has its flaws in some areas such as the story, it shouldn’t hold you back from checking out the game itself and its multiplayer. | Read review |
| Merlin’in Kazanı | Samet Basri Taşlı | 85 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 was a game I loved in general. | Read review |
| Metro GameCentral | Unknown | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | A little rough around the edges, especially in terms of the storytelling, but the interminable wait for this open world zombie sequel has been worth it | Read review |
| MMORPG.com | Unknown | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Let’s get one thing straight: I do enjoy playing Dying Light 2 Stay Human. The story is great and warrants additional playthroughs thanks to multiple endings, the combat feels awesome, and there’s a ton of stuff to do in this sprawling city (500 hours worth, apparently). It just needs to clean up the technical issues | Read review |
| MonsterVine | Diego Escala | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 might be more of the same, but that doesn’t stop it from being heaps of fun. | Read review |
| New Game Network | Ben Thomas | 71 / 100 | 02-14-2022 | Dying Light 2 exchanges simplicity for scale but it is still a decent sequel. The parkour movement and combat are both excellent, but the poor story, simplified night gameplay, and broken co-op mean this is not the best zombie game from Techland. | Read review |
| Niche Gamer | Unknown | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | While Dying Light 2 Stay Human does more than live up to its promises, it also still falls into the same traps that are found in every open-world game. | Read review |
| NoobFeed | Adam Siddiqui | 95 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 starts off running and doesn’t slow down, it’s a truly magnificent adventure. | Read review |
| Oyungezer Online | Yasin İlgün | 6.5 / 10 | 02-10-2022 | What’s the need to hurry? The game’s not going anywhere. Let their problems be solved, and that’s how you play. | Read review |
| Paste Magazine | Jackson Tyler | 5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Anybody familiar with Dying Light’s design can see how bad an idea this is from miles off, and obviously part of the team did because this is the exact moment that the game introduces fast travel. But it doesn’t matter. It was in Breath of the Wild. And that’s one of the best games ever made. | Read review |
| PC Gamer | Unknown | 84 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | A underwhelming story but a massive, exciting sandbox of parkour and kinetic combat. | Read review |
| PC Invasion | Jason Rodriguez | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 still retains many of the key factors that made the original enjoyable and exhilarating. Unfortunately, it’s also bogged down by technical issues, janky mechanics, and a restrictive save system that prevents you from readily seeing outcomes. | Read review |
| PCGamesN | Dustin Bailey | 6 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Bugs, repetitive side content, bad storytelling, and the unfulfilled promise of its choice and consequence system leave Dying Light 2 unable to capitalise on the strength of its excellent parkour and combat mechanics. | Read review |
| PCMag | Zackery Cuevas | 3.5 / 5 stars | 02-28-2022 | Dying Light 2 should appeal to fans of the original game with is terrific graphics and zombie-bashing action, though it suffers from poor pacing, a bland story, and technical issues. | Read review |
| PlayStation LifeStyle | Paulmichael Contreras | 7.5 / 10 | 02-09-2022 | Dying Light 2 is probably exactly what fans of the first game wanted. The story may not be particularly motivating, but combat is fun while the PS5 powers a smooth experience. A few questionable tweaks by Techland will not be appreciated by all players, but co-op will make it easy to forgive some of that. If you’re not completely tired of zombie games yet, give Dying Light 2 a try. There’s plenty to see and do, and you’ll likely enjoy your harrowing stay in Villedor. | Read review |
| PlayStation Universe | Garri Bagdasarov | 9 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human has been a long time coming, and thankfully it’s worth the wait. I loved the time I spent exploring Villedor; finding random events and scaling buildings took me back to the old days of Assassins Creed II. While I wish I wasn’t being timed on the occasions I went into a dark building or decided to explore at night, it’s a minor issue to overlook when most of the game is so brilliantly executed and fun to play. | Read review |
| Polygon | Owen Good | Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2’s appeal is, ultimately, more game than story. | Read review |
| Press Start | James Mitchell | 8 / 10 | 02-03-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a solid step-up from Dying Light in almost every way. Still, its increased emphasis on storytelling feels entirely misguided to the point where it’s narratively worse than Dying Light. Despite this, Dying Light 2 has fantastic traversal, satisfying combat, and some great quest design and variety that makes it Techland’s best. | Read review |
| PSX Brasil | Bruno Henrique Vinhadel | 85 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | Delivering a huge improvement on the first title, but lacking with new features, Dying Light 2 Stay Human is quite fun, brutal, rewarding and a game of exceptional quality when it comes to the open world. Minor issues still exist here, but Techland successfully manages to live up to the hype surrounding the game. | Read review |
| Push Square | Liam Croft | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a super solid follow-up to the 2015 original, building upon its fantastic gameplay loop with new traversal options for even more parkour fun. It’s extremely disappointing, however, that the narrative and open world promises Techland made in the lead up to launch haven’t been realised. Your choices don’t have nearly as much impact as we would like, and the map is much more rigid than pre-release footage would have you believe. Still, Dying Light 2 feels awesome and empowering to play, and that can go a long way. | Read review |
| Rectify Gaming | Unknown | 9.2 / 10 | 02-17-2022 | Dying Light 2 great movement and deep story focus makes it a sequel worth losing a few nights of sleep over | Read review |
| Rely On Horror | October Keegan | 6.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | At the end of the day, I cannot recommend Dying Light 2, at least not at full price. While the game does feature a lot of extremely fun gameplay and one very cool idea, it’s hampered by too many weird problems (especially when you consider that one very cool idea is directly tied to this terrible, frustrating story) to be enjoyable all the way around. | Read review |
| Rock, Paper, Shotgun | Matthew Castle | Not Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Some will find it agreeably smooth, I’m sure, but you can only sand so much off of chaos before it becomes ordinary. Come the real zombie apocalypse we should all be so lucky to face a world this trudgingly well behaved. | Read review |
| RPGamer | Ryan Costa | 3.5 / 5 stars | 03-01-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a delightfully fast paced game, which has a few persistent issues bogging it down. | Read review |
| Saudi Gamer | Unknown | 7 / 10 | 02-07-2022 | Dying Light 2 offers a beautiful open world experience that doesn’t feel heavy thanks to its fun and unique gameplay, and while the game succeeds in offering a beautiful world and great musical elements, it fails to deliver a memorable story, add to that some annoying technical issues. | Read review |
| Saving Content | Scott Ellison II | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Gone is the grit and limited color palette that set the grim tone for Dying Light, but the brighter aesthetic provides hope in an otherwise hopeless world. Dying Light 2 Stay Human gets so much right, and feels so much better to play that I can’t help but get excited at all the things I have yet to do. Techland has made a more compelling, complex, and well-paced game where pushing the player to make decisions without a known outcome is easily its best feature. While it has a familiar open-world design we’ve seen before, it’s one that I’m eager to return to. Dying Light 2 Stay Human has the best melee combat and parkour in the business, and is now the most satisfying of the series. | Read review |
| Screen Rant | Cade Onder | 3.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is good in spite of struggles. | Read review |
| SECTOR.sk | Peter Dragula | 8.5 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Techland returns back to the zombie world, and further refines and expands the unique combination of parkour and zombie apocalypse. Now with a focus on player decisions in every direction. | Read review |
| Shacknews | Sam Chandler | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Though there are moments of joy to be found, they’re punctuated by fetch quests and odd collision detection. Fans of the original will no doubt find fun in a return to the world, but for everyone else, you might want to wait a bit longer before you take a bite. | Read review |
| Sirus Gaming | Casey David Muir-Taylor | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human largely improves upon the original in every way, and it will have you enveloped in the dying light of the City again and again as you glide, climb, and jump from roof to roof in search of the next thing to explore. | Read review |
| Skill Up | Ralph Panebianco | Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| Slant Magazine | Ryan Aston | 4.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is constantly introducing new abilities through its missions, and in such clever ways that that players become naturally acclimated to them. Consistently, the world here overwhelms us in lockstep with the dazzlingly dense gameplay. This is game about choice and consequences, and it rewards the player for exploring and engaging with the City’s environments. Unlike the derivative setting of last year’s Far Cry 6, the City is a character of its own, alive with lived-in detail and a refinement of the use of environmental storytelling. And it’s all the more incredible for making us feel as if we can change it for the better. | Read review |
| Softpedia | Cosmin Vasile | 8.5 / 10 | 02-06-2022 | Dying Light 2 is bigger and better than the first game. It improves on the original in every aspect while keeping the same formula. It’s a grindy game that can take either hundreds of hours to complete, or just a regular open-world action-adventure that you can finish in about 25-30 hours if you’re just interested in the main story. | Read review |
| SomHráč.sk | Martin Černický | 85 / 100 | 02-13-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human is an excellent sequel that was maybe just a bit too ambitious for its own good in the end. Despite that, it still can offer complex and fun gameplay. | Read review |
| SpazioGames | Gianluca Arena | 8.3 / 10 | 02-11-2022 | Dying Light 2 is bigger, better and bolder than its predecessor and even if it’s not exactly a looker on console, offers fifty hours of fun for both newcomers and fans of the first game. It’s not perfect by any means, but we cannot avoid recommending it. | Read review |
| Stevivor | Steve Wright | 6 / 10 | 02-03-2022 | Dying Light 2 faces two big issues at present: technical glitches that can be fixed with a patch, and design choices that will be harder to deal with. | Read review |
| TechRaptor | Andrew Stretch | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an entertaining game with enjoyable characters and fun parkour elements. Unfortunately a lot doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. If what you’re after is more Dying Light though, then this is your game. | Read review |
| Telegraph | Tom Hoggins | 3 / 5 stars | 02-07-2022 | Techland’s horror sequel features crunchy combat and thrilling parkour, but buries its best bits with a clumsy story and open-world excess | Read review |
| The Angry Joe Show | Joe Vargas | 6 / 10 | 02-19-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| The Escapist | Marty Sliva | Recommended | 02-01-2022 | Video Review | Read review |
| The Games Machine | Alessandro Alosi | 8.2 / 10 | 02-09-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a good action game with lots of content and a lot of potential, but various technical inaccuracies and unconvincing AI indicate that another polishing period would have been useful. Hopefully the Polish magic will repeat itself once again. | Read review |
| The Outerhaven Productions | Ryan Easby | 3.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Techland has a hit on its hands with Dying Light 2! While the game has been a long time coming, it is a fun, enjoyable game that features well-written characters and great world-building, along with some amazing parkour. However, the combat can be repetitive, voice lines constantly repeat and there’s a few concerns regarding the bugs I encountered. Other than that, Dying Light 2 is solid. | Read review |
| TheSixthAxis | Jim Hargreaves | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 expands and refines a formula Techland has been peddling since its breakout success with Dead Island. This sequel learns a lot from modern open world video games, its massive, zombie-infested sandbox rarely feeling empty, especially as you breeze through city blocks with a Mirror’s Edge-like finesse. However, Dying Light 2 inherits the same problems | Read review |
| TrueAchievements | Tom West | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human is more than a sequel — it’s an evolution that keeps everything that is integral to the franchise intact, but builds on it with enough engaging content that it’s incredibly hard to stop playing. | Read review |
| TrueGaming | Unknown | 8 / 10 | 02-25-2022 | Dying Light 2 doesn’t break any norms in open world games, but it does it its own way. slow pace and development of personality and abilities in the game without getting a better evaluation. | Read review |
| TrustedReviews | Ryan Jones | 4.5 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | I’ve had a lot of fun with Dying Light 2, mainly dues to its fantastic parkour platforming and engaging story that can be shaped by your in-game decisions. Those hoping for a terrifying zombie slasher will likely be disappointed, but the thrill of escaping a zombie horde by hopping from rooftop to rooftop ensures this is still an exhilarating action game. | Read review |
| Twinfinite | Alex Gibson | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Overall, though, I enjoyed my time with Dying Light 2 and found it an entertaining open-world experience that I want to keep playing beyond the 30 or so hours I put into the main storyline. Techland has plans to support Dying Light 2 with five years of post-launch DLC, which is a pledge I’m certain it will deliver given its resume with the original. My hope, then, is that its future content doubles down on the intrigue of the new choice/consequence branching dialog but delivers better and more varied questing to make the unfolding of these stories more engaging. | Read review |
| Unboxholics | Σάκης Καρπάς | Recommended | 02-03-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human is basically a good game, but with weaknesses. Many times it loses its orientation, suffers from repetition, the script has ups and downs but it continues to be an enjoyable RPG, with solid mechanisms, endless content to explore and intense moments of stress. Fans of zombies and the first Dying Light, should invest. | Read review |
| VG247 | Josh Broadwell | Recommended | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is messy and uneven. It’s also unique, exhilarating, and just plain fun to play, with one of the best settings in recent memory – despite the nagging feeling that the game could, and should, be more than what it is. | Read review |
| VGC | Jordan Middler | 3 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2: Stay Human feels like it lost its direction somewhere along the way. It begins as an interesting zombie game wherein the threat feels tangible, your character feels weak, and the world feels primed for a dynamic story. However, the further you get into the game, a lot of its early ideas feel sidelined for a generic zombie plot, uninspiring combat, and the absence of any kind of danger. | Read review |
| VGChartz | Lee Mehr | 6 / 10 | 03-05-2022 | By trying to wrestle with a mixture of parkour/stealth/combat mechanics, a large open world, and reactive storytelling within a rotund narrative, it starts to buckle from its lesser elements and annoying technical problems. | Read review |
| VideoGamer | Josh Wise | 7 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Indeed, if, like me, you have a weakness for the zombie-hued, and for the sway and flail of first-person platforming, then Dying Light 2 is easy to recommend. | Read review |
| Washington Post | Christopher Byrd | Not Recommended | 02-04-2022 | Unfortunately, though, the narrative is a black hole of missed opportunities, surfacing time and again to remind players of what’s missing from the experience even as they try to forget and just enjoy what does work. If only “Stay Human” could navigate its story of post-apocalyptic morality with the same deftness as its assured, acrobatic protagonist. | Read review |
| WayTooManyGames | Kyle Nicol | 9 / 10 | 02-08-2022 | Dying Light 2 isn’t a massive reinvention of the original game, but honestly, it didn’t even need to be. It successfully manages to improve on the core aspects that made its predecessor so appealing, adding more content, set pieces, and improving on its presentation, whilst delivering that same thrilling feeling that captivated us all those years ago. The story may fall flat at times, but the fun of free running around the open world of Villedor will still keep me busy for many hours to come. | Read review |
| Wccftech | Alessio Palumbo, Nathan Birch | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is another exhilarating parkour and zombie-pummeling playground from Techland, although at times, the seams holding it all together are a bit obvious. Given the game’s glitches, minor gameplay annoyances, and crudely bisected story and world, reports of behind-the-scenes issues feel all-too-plausible. That said, the foundation here is rock solid, and Techland has proven they’re capable long-term builders, so I’m confident Dying Light 2’s embers can be stoked to a full flame in time. | Read review |
| We Got This Covered | Eric Hall | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | With a significantly improved movement system, an engrossing, branching narrative, and an open world that’s consistently engaging, Dying Light 2 was well worth the extended wait. | Read review |
| WellPlayed | Zach Jackson | 7.5 / 10 | 02-03-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human could have been one of the highlights of the year, but a disappointing story, some frustrating design choices and performance issues mean it doesn’t cash in on its potential. | Read review |
| Windows Central | Jez Corden | 4 / 5 stars | 02-02-2022 | Initially, I was concerned Dying Light 2 wouldn’t find its own voice in a world crammed with shallow open worlds designed for busy work rather than fun, but the more I played, the more I found that wasn’t the case. Dying Light 2 truly shines with its high-stakes nighttime gameplay, which turns the modern and tired open-world formula on its head. While some of the writing isn’t the best and next-gen console performance is a bit disappointing, Dying Light 2 offers a tight experience that builds on the original. | Read review |
| Worth Playing | Chris “Atom” DeAngelus | 8 / 10 | 02-02-2022 | Dying Light 2 is a good game that happens to be the long-awaited sequel to a great game. There’s still a ton of fun to be had, and the exploration alone is worth the price of admission. At the same time, it’s bigger without necessarily being better. I had a lot of fun with it, but I can’t help but feel more positive toward the original. If you’re looking for a fresh new world to smash zombies in and you’re burned out on Harran, then Dying Light 2 will scratch that itch well. | Read review |
| Xbox Achievements | Richard Walker | 86 / 100 | 02-02-2022 | You may not want to spend the 500 hours that Techland suggested is possible playing Dying Light 2, completing every little thing, but there’s easily a good 60 hours or so of story and side activities to partake in. | Read review |
| Zoomg | افشین پیروزی | 8 / 10 | 02-14-2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a work that, from the very initial encounter, shows that it is capable of becoming a truly entertaining experience. | Read review |
| ZTGD | Drew Leachman | 6.5 / 10 | 02-15-2022 | There’s a lot to do here, but I feel like the mechanics of the game itself gets in the way of really letting the player explore what’s around, and in the end, the rewards just may not be enough to bother with a lot of them. That’s not to say I didn’t have a fun time with the game. I did. There are some great shining moments here and when the story ramped up, I was in it until the end. If you have the patience to get to it, you too can have a good time, but don’t say I didn’t warn you that it will take some time to finally get to it. | Read review |
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