Remember when zombie media was everywhere? You couldn’t go outside without being assaulted by zombie movies, undead TV shows, or infected videogames. The likes of Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, The Last of Us, and Dead Rising all come to mind, but there’s never been anything like Dying Light. Combining close-quarters zombie slaying with frenetic parkour, the open-world RPG is having quite the resurgence on Steam, and it’s all thanks to it being dirt cheap.
After the Dying Light Standard Edition returned alongside a massive sale, the incredible parkour zombie game has been enjoying new life on Steam. Dying Light is a game that feels very much of its time, when zombies were all over our games, TV, and movies. So developer Techland did the only logical thing with the first-person zombie-slicing action it perfected in Dead Island; it added Mirror’s Edge-style parkour.
The SteamDB graph has suddenly become a vertical line, rising from around 3,000 players in the last few weeks all the way up to a 24-hour peak of 33,709 concurrent players. We might even see a new all-time peak, with 45,000 players in the game at once nine years ago the number to beat.
I haven’t touched Dying Light in a while, but I played it back in the day on the premise of zombie parkour and loved it. I’ll be the first to admit that some of the open-world design hasn’t aged well, but free-running around a desolate cityscape while slashing at the undead is still absolute bliss. You can even do a midair drop kick to any zombie jumping at you which is, simply put, the coolest videogame move of all time.
We gave the game 7/10 in our Dying Light review back in the day, and I maintain that a decade-old, dirt-cheap 7/10 can easily become an all-time favorite, if you let it. There’s nothing better than coming to a game or series years later, bagging it on the cheap, and having a great time despite any obvious flaws or aged design.
Dying Light is 85% off until Sunday May 19, and you can expect to pay just $2.99 / £2.10 until then, you can learn more here. The Definitive Edition – which comes with almost 30 DLC – is also just $8.99 / £6.99 if you fancy the full package.
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