How the time flies, eh? It actually doesn’t really feel like a decade since Dying Gentle got here out, placing some new spins on the zombie recreation formulation with its slick parkour motion and day-night cycle that made it an actual gauntlet when the solar went down. In celebration of its tenth birthday, developer Techland is giving Dying Gentle a shock replace that additional enhances the sport’s visuals and its soundtrack. It’s additionally bringing again a few of followers’ favourite in-game occasions for a four-week fiesta.
Whereas they’re not precisely award-scooping, critically acclaimed zombie video games, each Dying Gentle and its sequel are beloved by those who love to show the undead into pulp. Layering on that superior motion, they actually stand out from style rivals like Useless Island, and Techland will quickly attempt to go three for 3 when the Dying Gentle The Beast launch date arrives in the summertime. For now although, the main target is on celebrating that milestone anniversary of the primary recreation, and the sequence as a complete.
Each Dying Gentle and Dying Gentle 2 will obtain free updates very quickly, with the unique recreation getting some enhancements to its graphics and a remastered soundtrack that additionally has some new tracks from composer Pawel Blaszczak. Over the subsequent 4 weeks, gamers also can relive a number of the recreation’s finest occasions. Issues kick off right now with Hypermode (plus some double XP) earlier than Low Gravity, Tremendous-Crane, and Viral Rush arrive within the following weeks.
Over in Dying Gentle 2, some particular objects from the primary recreation are being added as Pilgrim Outpost bounty rewards. In direction of the tip of this month-long celebration, its co-op roguelike mode, Tower Raid, may also be totally and completely added to the sport. Some extra enhancements to DL2’s prologue are additionally arriving with its massive free replace.
A roadmap looking forward to the remainder of 2025 additionally particulars a number of the future adjustments coming to Dying Gentle 2, together with a brand new weapon class, new Tower Raid characters, and group map assist.
If you happen to’re a lover of stats, Techland has additionally launched a video going over some ridiculous numbers which have been accrued by the 45 million people who have performed both or each video games. For instance, should you’re ever grilled with some gaming trivia and requested the query ‘what number of zombies have been killed in complete throughout Dying Gentle and Dying Gentle 2?’ now you can confidently reply: ‘75,926,162,940.’ When you’ve memorized that quantity, after all… Techland additionally reveals that over 30 billion limbs have been severed, 20 billion heads have been eliminated, and that gamers have collectively died over 3 billion occasions.
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