Dying Light

Dying Light from 2015 is the starting point of the whole franchise from Polish studio Techland (Wrocław, since 1991). You play as Kyle Crane, a GRE operative sent into the Harran quarantine zone, a fictional Middle Eastern city after an epidemic outbreak. By day you control the situation: parkour across rooftops, resource gathering, crafting weapons from improvised materials, story quests. At nightfall the rules change: the Volatile appear, extremely fast mutated infected that hunt across all of Harran. At night there is one goal: reach a UV shelter alive.

On Steam (appid 239140) in 2026, Definitive Edition is on sale (released June 9, 2022), with all 26 add-ons in one purchase. It includes four full expansions: Cuisine & Cargo (2015), additional missions in the quarantine zone; The Bozak Horde (2015), an arena mode with 70+ waves of enemies and co-op for up to 4 players; The Following (2016), a separate Countryside map, the cult of the Mother and the first driving of a buggy in the series, about 10 hours of new campaign; Hellraid (2020), an arcade dungeon crawler in a medieval fantasy setting. Plus 22 cosmetic sets.

Owners of earlier editions received Definitive Edition for free from June 2022. If you are buying for the first time, you get the full package with no extra payment.

Eleven years on the market: 484,915 Steam reviews, 95% positive, with the status Overwhelmingly Positive. Metacritic: 87. After the release of Dying Light: The Beast in September 2025, the average number of concurrent players grew from 4,944 to a peak of 7,562, and according to SteamCharts it stays above the pre-sequel level (4,478) as of May 2026. An active audience, not an archive title.

Localization, important to know before buying: Dying Light has never had official Russian voice-over. The Russian interface and subtitles have been present since the 2015 launch. The strongest community option is the fan dub Mechanics VoiceOver: the full version v1.0 was released on December 30, 2024 (four years of crowdfunding on VKontakte). This is a fan project, not an official localization. If you need full official Russian voice acting for Crane, see Dying Light: The Beast 2025.

Activation is through Steam, and no external Techland launcher is required. Co-op for up to 4 players through Steam matchmaking (PC to PC only, no cross-play with consoles). An active modding community on Nexus Mods: I Am Legion, Skyfall, Fun Mod 5.0, Advanced Moves and others. 60 GB on disk. System requirements are low by 2026 standards: the game runs on ten-year-old hardware.

Dying Light is a parkour zombie classic from Polish developer Techland: explore infected Harran by day, hide from the Volatile at night, and level up Crane from survivor to the top predator of the quarantine zone. Definitive Edition includes the base game plus all 26 add-ons, among them The Following expansion with a new map and buggy. Steam: 95% positive out of 485 thousand reviews over 11 years. There is no official Russian voice-over, only Russian subtitles and interface.