Dying Light

Dying Light

BANGER · Multiplayer · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 3 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $2.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2014.

Cost per hour
$0.14/hr
ReviewsS
95% of 498,741
Critics
87 players 8 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Multiplayer
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
18.3h
To 100%
64.6h 3.5x the story
Finish
2% reach the ending
Achievements
78

Price and sales

Sales
68 on record
Typical cut
66% off
Steam low
$2.49 July 2026
Sale every
35d last November 2026
Other stores

Players and genre

Online
5,300 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

94% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

68 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 26) and Dead Island Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 57).

More about Dying Light

87 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 11,221 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.

HowLongToBeat players log 18.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 65, 3.5 times as much.

498,741 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach15M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Holding it back
MonetizationCosmetic, Time-limited
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
For context
Refunds13 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesCosmetic, Time-limitedPCGamingWiki

What players say

Dying Light is simply a damn good zombie game. I had a great time with it. The parkour, the combat, smashing zombies, exploring the city and constantly moving through dangerous areas all work really well together. What I especially love is the sound design and atmosphere. The noises of the city, the infected, the changing environment, and especially the day-night cycle make the world feel alive and dangerous...
Red John-CZ/SKRecommendedafter 135h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
**Dying Light** Dying Light is one of those zombie games that manages to make simple movement feel incredibly satisfying. The parkour system is easily the highlight of the game. Running across rooftops, jumping between buildings and escaping hordes of infected makes Harran feel like a playground where every street and rooftop can become an escape route. The day and night cycle is another great addition. During the...
✪ MordevianRecommendedafter 6.8h56 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Zombies, the street, parkour, Arabs-that's a typical day in the life of a European.But now, joking aside, let's talk about the game.As for the game, which was released in 2015, that's pretty impressive result.Looking at it like that, i would never guess that it's almost 12 years old. 1.1.Graphics, yes i saw pretty low quality textures smth like 512p , but if to take visual overall - unique faded color style ...
soyarkeRecommendedafter 30h15 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1GB VRAM), 40 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Dying Light scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/239140/dying-light
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+8
Critics87
Players95
Metacritic critics · 498,741 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTechland
PublisherTechland
GenreMultiplayer
Released2015
Players15.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements78