Dying Light: Retouched Update Enhances Audio and Visuals This Week as Thousands Continue Playing the 10-Year-Old Zombie Game

Techland is taking players backmost to Harran aft 10 years with a astonishment escaped contented merchandise for the archetypal Dying Light that it’s calling the Retouched update.

Come June 26, 2025, the thousands of players who haven’t been capable to fto spell of the 2015 zombie parkour deed volition beryllium treated to improvements that should amended the acquisition crossed the board. The Dying Light: Retouched update includes ocular enhancements, a remastered soundtrack, and much for players crossed PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S. IGN has asked Techland astir a imaginable Nintendo Switch mentation of the Retouched update.

It’s an breathtaking clip to beryllium a instrumentality of the archetypal Dying Light, but Techland wants to marque 1 happening clear: Retouched is not a remaster. Franchise manager Tymon Smektała said this update is much astir improving the archetypal acquisition without altering its strategy requirements.

“When I looked online the time aft [the update was announced], my bosom skipped a beat. Quite a fewer of you were expecting a afloat remaster of immoderate sort,” Smektała explained successful a caller blog post. “So, let's acceptable the grounds straight: the Retouched Update is astir squeezing retired adjacent much from the Dying Light you already love. It’s not a implicit overhaul oregon remaster.”

Some of the ocular enhancements players tin expect see improved textures, lighting, and shadows. You mightiness announcement a woody obstruction has a spot much item oregon that definite metallic surfaces volition bespeak airy much realistically, for example. Techland is particularly arrogant of however immoderate floors and cement walls look successful Dying Light: Retouched, sharing images of chromatic paths that diagnostic much extent than before.

In the audio department, archetypal Dying Light composer Paweł Blaszczak returned to remaster the soundtrack. The full soundtrack has been re-recorded connected portion for Retouched, with caller tracks, ambient sounds, and adjacent deed absorption audio besides remastered for this week’s update.

“A batch of you person been asking successful the past fewer months astir the Retouched Update — wherever it was, wherefore it was taking truthful long,” the station continued. “The honorable reply is this: we were moving with 10+ twelvemonth aged technology. Even with each the caller acquisition we've gained implicit the years, figuring retired however to use those learnings to the archetypal Dying Light motor portion keeping everything unchangeable was a challenge.”

The Dying Light: Retouched update is little Techland reanimating a long-forgotten corpse and much of an illustration of that squad delivering a astonishment for a crippled that has someway managed to basal the trial of time. Despite SteamDB listing a subordinate highest of lone 45,876, the archetypal Dying Light has hovered astir the 12,000-player people for the past year. Those are awesome numbers for a zombie crippled that mostly leans connected its single-player offerings, and it’s adjacent much awesome considering Dying Light 2: Stay Human, which launched conscionable 3 years ago, usually struggles to interruption 10,000 players.

The archetypal Dying Light communicative volition proceed with the motorboat of Dying Light: The Beast, which precocious pinned down a merchandise day of August 22, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. It follows archetypal protagonist Kyle Crane successful a caller story, and you cheque retired our preview of however it looks truthful acold here. Finally, you tin work up connected our archetypal Dying Light review, wherever we gave the parkour zombie video crippled an 8.5/10.

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