As the developers at Techland recently announced. Expect a massive amount of gameplay hours in the upcoming zombie action open-world hit Dying Light 2! If you want to see everything in the destroyed fictional city of Harran and experience all the decisions, you can expect at least 500 hours! A number that even a Witcher 3 or Skyrim would have a hard time reaching.
This is what lies behind the 500 game hours of Dying Light 2
As revealed in an official tweet from the developers. The action RPG is said to keep us busy for hundreds of hours in a city infested with zombies and battling rival factions. Or as the developers humorously put it – A similar amount of time required to walk from Warsaw to Madrid.
To fully complete Dying Light 2 Stay Human, you’ll need at least 500 hours-almost as long as it would take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid! DyingLight2 stayhuman pic.twitter.com/Sk3KFpRJoA
– Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) January 8, 2022
But what can you make of the information? Open-world games have been criticised for quite some time for offering huge playgrounds but with little immersion and attraction and instead relying enormously on the same tasks over and over again, which are more like occupational therapy than an exciting adventure. AC: Valhalla would be the best example of this recently. This is why more and more players now want denser, crisper and better staged adventures rather than yet another open-world á la Far Cry with bandit bases and lookout towers. How Dying Light 2 implements this will be seen in early February, when the game is released for all major platforms.
But it’s likely that the advertised 500 hours will count as multiple playthroughs of Dying Light 2. That means multiple restarts, where we’ll keep making different choices than the playthrough before. These will sometimes be more, sometimes less distinctly different from each other, and so definitely add up to 500 hours of gameplay, which it takes to really see every possible turn and conversation option for ourselves. Still, it’s a proud and bold announcement. Completing the main campaign including all side quests, on the other hand, will take, still a hefty, 70-80 hours, according to the developers. And if the zombie action sandbox really manages to also offer us interesting activities and exciting decision-making options that affect our world, we look forward to the hundreds of hours of gameplay.
