Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

The story takes place 22 years after the events of the first game, in the huge post-apocalyptic city of Villedor, a composite image of a medieval European city. You play as Aiden Caldwell, a pilgrim searching for traces of his sister in the infected city. Kyle Crane from the first game is mentioned as a legend but does not appear: DL2 is fully standalone, and you do not need to play the original before it.

Parkour remains the core of movement, with a paraglider and a grappling hook added. The paraglider lets you glide between districts using air currents; the grappling hook is unlocked during the story and gives a swinging motion between buildings. During the day you clear zombie nests and make decisions for two factions, the Peacekeepers or the Survivors: each choice changes the city's infrastructure. At night the Volatiles go hunting, and the longer you stay on the street, the more aggressively they chase you.

Reloaded Edition (2024) is a substantially polished version of the game after 10 major patches. It includes the base game, the Bloody Ties DLC with the Carnage Hall arena lasting 5-7 hours, and the firearms update (pistols, shotguns and automatic weapons as an addition to melee combat). Four-player co-op is available through Steam: progress is saved for the host, but all participants level up and receive loot.

DL2 Stay Human became the first game in the series with full official Russian dubbing. The localization was made by the Buka studio together with Techland: 100 professional actors and more than 500 voiced characters. Aiden was voiced by Andrey Mishutin, Lawan by Aliya Nasyrova, and Hakon by Anton Eldarov. For comparison, the original Dying Light from 2015 never received official dubbing.

In the first month after release in February 2022, 5 million copies were sold; by January 2023 the whole series had passed 30 million. On Steam there are more than 211,000 reviews with an overall rating of "Very Positive" (~79%), and the Metacritic PC score is 77. The launch came with bugs, but Reloaded Edition 2024 fixed most of them. The game requires only a Steam account: a Techland Account is recommended for cloud saves but is not required.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition is a parkour survival action game set in a post-apocalypse, made by Techland, with full official Russian dubbing by the Buka studio. The 2024 edition includes the game, the Bloody Ties DLC and firearms, all in one Steam key. Up to four players can play together in co-op.