First Dying Light is Getting Enhancements With Retouched Update

Developer Techland has announced that the first Dying Light game, which initially launched back in 2015, is getting enhancements (not a remaster) on consoles and PC as part of its ten-year anniversary. The Retouched Update, as they’re calling it, will roll out tomorrow on last-gen and current-gen consoles including PC, bringing touched up visuals, audio and more completely free to all players.

Techland explained in a recent blog post that the upcoming Dying Light: Retouched Update won’t be a remaster. Instead, the studio is making slight tweaks and touch-ups to the ten-year old game’s visuals, adding more detail to environments and assets while sharpening up plenty of textures to bring it closer to current-gen visuals and its sequel, Dying Light 2: Stay Human. This is part of Techland’s promise to continue supporting the single-player game, even though it’s well past its release window.

Grzegorz Świstowski, Techland’s Technical Game Director, explained:

“One of the best things about working with your own engine is that the people building it are just next door. Over the past couple of years, we’ve added a lot, customised a lot, and learned how to squeeze more from the tech we already have. One day, someone just started applying those learnings to some old assets – and it just clicked that we could do that across the whole game.”

“So we put some more people on it. We started increasing texture quality of surroundings and upscaling them to create a sharper, better look in the game,” Techland explained in the blog post.

In addition to the visual touch-ups, Techland also explained that it was reworking the audio in Dying Light, particularly the atmosphere of Harran with brand new sounds and ambient tracks. The audio for hit reactions has also been modified to sound crunchier and more impactful. Paweł Blaszczak, the original game’s composer, returned to completely remaster the game’s soundtrack as well.

Dying Light: Retouched Update will release tomorrow on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC. In case you missed it, check out the 2025 roadmap that Techland released earlier this year in celebration of Dying Light’s ten-year anniversary.

Source: Techland