Dying Light Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-20
- Highly praised parkour mechanics
- Immersive atmosphere and world design
- Brutal and satisfying combat
- Engaging and interesting story
- Weak and clichéd main story
- Repetitive quests and missions
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 492,635
- Positive
- 468,77695.2%
- Negative
- 23,8594.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 22,691,728
- Estimated revenue
- $567,066,283
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1040.87%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,790
- Estimated revenue lost
- $119,702
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1040.9% Avg playtime 1h | 1351.1% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,1669.8% Avg playtime 41.3h | 10,48688.2% Avg playtime 70h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 23.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 175.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,130.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
11,891 total
Organic purchasers9,58580.6%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations2,30619.4%
Voted up: 88%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
11,891 total
First impression0-2h4143.48%
Voted up: 68%
Mid game2-10h1,91916.1%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h2,23418.8%
Voted up: 86%
Endgame20h+7,32461.6%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
84.2%
Global baseline 89.3%
101 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 492,635 total.