Dying Light: The Beasthas been delayed until September 19, four weeks after the game’s original release date of August 22.
Techlandreleased a statementannouncing the delay, explaining that the additional month of development time would allow the studio to put the finishing touches on Dying Light: The Beast, in an attempt to elevate it to “the best Dying Light game we’ve ever released.”
The full statement can be found below:
To all the Kyle Crane fans
As we’re closing in on the launch of Dying Light: The Beast, everyone at the studio feels your excitement. More than 150 previews were published this week from journalists and content creators and their response was universally positive. We’re blushing about quotes like “nailbiting survival horror”, “absolute blast”, “project with a soul” and being called a “standout game of 2025”. It proved the gut feeling that we had already - we’re making a very special, fun game.
It also proved that the Dying Light community is the best. The preview coverage has been viewed by millions of players who looked at every detail of the game with laser focus eyes, highlighting, discussing and getting excited about thousands of details. We’re spending time effortlessly, reading and collecting your feedback and opinions and making sure that your voice is heard and we know exactly what’s important for you.
It has always been our goal to make Dying Light: The Beast the best Dying Light game we’ve ever released. To honor this promise, we’ve made the decision to move the release date to Jun 11, 2025 to allow for extra polishing work.
We understand that this may be disappointing, but our experience has shown how important the first impression is. With just four additional weeks, we can address final details that make all the difference between good and great. Areas we want to improve include finetuning the balance of gameplay elements, looking into clarity of UI, increasing the quality of physics, as well as tweaking cutscenes and player animations further as well as adding last little details.
We’ll keep you busy this summer with regular updates from the studio and a playable demo at gamescom in Hall 6. Starting next week, we’ll also share an update on the game’s gore and you’ll meet our good friend Bober the Beaver again.
We’re almost there so please bear with us for the remaining 8 weeks – we can’t wait until you finally unleash the Beast on September 19.
With the best regards from the entire team at Techland,
The Developers of Dying Light: The Beast
Some fans will inevitably be disappointed about the additional wait, but most players won’t begrudge a studio polishing a game before release. It’s an especially admirable decision given the culture of ‘release now, fix later’ that has seeped into the industry since the advent of patches.
Our own Eric Switzer is one of the journalists who heaped praise on Dying Light: The Beast, calling it “exactly what you want from Dying Light” inhis preview.
Dying Light: The Beast now releases on September 19 on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.
