Dying Light 2 Stay Human

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Violence — graphic & gore
HorrorRPGSurvival

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

First-person melee and ranged combat against zombies and human enemies with heavy blood spray, impaling, and brutal finishing blows.

Horror & psychological sustained dread
High

Survival-horror tension centered on a day-night cycle where the infected become fast, aggressive, and deadly at night, with jump scares and dread.

Mutilation / body horror player performs it
High

Weapon combat allows severing limbs and heads of infected, with dismembered bodies shown on screen.

Language strong
High

Frequent strong profanity in spoken dialogue throughout the story.

Substances depicted
Moderate

Alcohol appears in settlements and characters drink; combat stimulants and drug references occur in the world and dialogue.

Dark themes intense
Moderate

Bleak post-apocalyptic setting with mass death, human experimentation, factional cruelty, betrayal, and morally weighted story choices.

Torture depicted
Moderate

The story references and shows captives being abused and experimented on by hostile factions.

Crime & lawlessness crime depicted
Low

Bandits, raiders, and lawless factions commit murder and looting, and the player fights through such criminal groups.

Spending cosmetic purchases
Low

Optional cosmetic weapon and character bundles are sold as paid DLC.

Sexual content suggestive
Low

Occasional sexual references and mild innuendo in adult dialogue between characters.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangers

What it is

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a first-person open-world action RPG set 22 years into a zombie apocalypse, in a walled European city where you play a wanderer searching for his sister. Gameplay mixes fluid parkour traversal with visceral melee and ranged combat against both the undead and hostile humans, plus branching story choices that shift which factions control the city. Content includes graphic bloody violence with limb dismemberment, a tense survival-horror night cycle with aggressive infected, frequent strong language, dark mature themes such as human experimentation and societal collapse, alcohol and drug use, and depictions of torture. It supports up to four-player online co-op with voice and text chat.

How it's framed

The game frames the world as a grim struggle for survival where every faction has compromised morals, and it repeatedly asks the player to make hard choices that harm some groups to help others, presenting violence and cruelty as consequences of collapse rather than glorified acts.

Details

Developer
Techland
Publisher
Techland
Released
2022-02-04
Metacritic 76critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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