Dying Light: The Beast is making the most out of rough situation, but more than anything it has me craving something totally fresh from Techland | Gaming

Dying Light: The Beast is a prime example of making lemonade when god gives you lemons. Or leakers, in the case of Techland, which revealed it press during previews of the game behind closed doors at Gamescom 2024. Inside a small room, attendees were trucking through a 30-40 minute playthrough of the upcoming Dying Light 2 spin-off. It came as a result of some hard work and creative thinking following a pretty nasty data leak which gave up the plans for some Dying Light 2 DLC.

Instead of proceeding with the plan, one that everyone now knew about, the Techland team decided to pivot into creating The Beast, a kinda halfway measure between a standard DLC and a whole new game. It’s shorter than a full game for sure, and still has the skeleton of Dying Light 2 at its core,…