Games like Dying Light: The Beast
If Dying Light: The Beast is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition, Dying Light and Zombase — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and grim. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Dying Light: The Beast is a 2025 action-adventure RPG set in a post-apocalyptic open world. Players control Kyle Crane as he explores a vast wilderness filled with dangerous infected creatures. The game features a day-night cycle, crafting, difficulty modes, and first-person exploration with fluid parkour movement and grappling hook traversal. Boss battles and beast-mode abilities round out the combat systems. Reviewers highlight the detailed physics engine and environmental interactions, deep weapon customization and upgrade systems, and challenging difficulty that keeps combat rewarding. The game is verified for Steam Deck and costs $59.99 USD. Players describe the atmosphere as dark, grim, and intense, with a punishing tone. The game holds an 88% positive review score from over 25,000 Steam reviews.
About Dying Light: The Beast: BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
WHY THIS
Shares gear upgrading, day night cycle and an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Top pick for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares parkour movement and a dark mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Second-strongest match for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Zombase
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Zombase is a multiplayer survival sandbox with unique 2.5D visuals. Build physics-based mobile bases, attach wheels or propellers to move and fly across the map to survive a deadly storm that constantly forces players to relocate and adapt.
ZIC – Zombies in City
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
Borderlands 3
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization with Dying Light: The Beast.
Ranked #5 for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
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Ranked #6 for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Ranked #7 for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Killing Floor 2
WHY THIS
Shares progression system and an intense mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Ranked #8 for Dying Light: The Beast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dying Light: The Beast
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Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Resident Evil
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Dishonored
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
Cyberpunk 2077
WHY THIS
Shares stealth and an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
Tales from the Borderlands
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Prey
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Reviewers of Dying Light: The Beast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dying Light: The Beast at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~75% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Priced ~83% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~67% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dying Light: The Beast on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Other recommendable Steam games by Techland, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares parkour movement and a dark mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
WHY THIS
Shares gear upgrading, day night cycle and an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.
Dead Island Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez® Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the West’s most notorious outlaws.
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares melee combat, weapon customization and a dark mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
THE OLD WEST, 1864. In order to save their family, the McCall brothers will kill anyone who stands between them and the legendary Gold of Juarez.
Call of Juarez
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Call of Juarez is an epic adventure western themed FPS game. The player alternately assumes the roles of two distinct, antagonistic characters: a sneaking fugitive Billy and his hunter the reverend Ray.
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Shares an intense mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Another title from Techland, the studio behind Dying Light: The Beast.
Constant sense of ultimate speed is your only companion, and fast reflexes and tactical skills are what stands between victory and defeat. Buy before Dec. 7 10AM PST and get 10% off.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
WHY THIS
Shares gear upgrading, day night cycle and an atmospheric mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares parkour movement and a dark mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dying Light: The Beast.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Frequently asked about Dying Light: The Beast
- Is Dying Light: The Beast verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dying Light: The Beast is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Dying Light: The Beast cost?
- Dying Light: The Beast is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dying Light: The Beast have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dying Light: The Beast supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dying Light: The Beast?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dying Light: The Beast are Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition, Dying Light, Zombase.
- Who developed Dying Light: The Beast?
- Dying Light: The Beast was developed by Techland.
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