If you’ve played a game in the Dying Light franchise before, you know they include large open worlds with lots and lots of side content to get through, and it seems Dying Light: The Beast is no exception to that rule.
In a recent interview with the franchise director, Tymone Smektala revealed to us how long the game might take to complete. We asked Tymone how long the critical path was (meaning, if you just did story missions), and he told us: “About 20 hours if you stay focused on the main path, depending on skill and difficulty. If you like to dive deeper – and I highly encourage you to to do so as it’s a game built for that! – you can push at least twice beyond that.”
And you wouldn’t want to rush through a big game like that usually, especially given that this does appear it’ll be a return to what so many people fell in love with the franchise for, to begin with.
Tymone also explained the game is “tight and dense”, saying: “I actually think Dying Light offers the most dense open world experience out there because every square inch of our map is gameplay – you either parkour, fight or sneak your way around trying to survive. What stands out about this world is maybe not its size but how handcrafted it is.
From forests to swamps, from farmlands to the touristy mountain town in the middle of the map, from the industrial park to the hiking trails up in the mountains we asked our level artists to create a place offering a lot to the those who like to explore and discover – encounters, hidden stashes, secrets, Easter eggs, etc. We’re definitely aiming at the “oh wow, what’s that?” factor a lot. It’s designed to create tension rather than stretching thin over a sheer number of empty square kilometers.”
You can read our full Dying Light: The Beast interview , here.
Dying Light: The Beast is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on September 19th.
