[1] Gameplay focuses mainly on melee combat and transversal, with the protagonists in both games being able to use parkour-like movement to quickly move between locations.

[3] In Dying Light, Kyle Crane (Roger Craig Smith), an undercover Global Relief Effort (GRE) agent, is airdropped into a fictional Middle-Eastern city called Harran to retrieve a sensitive file which contains vital data on the virus, which could potentially lead to a cure.

The core team of Techland, which had previously released Dead Island in 2011, commenced development on Dying Light in early 2012.

[4] Due to creative differences with Dead Island publisher Deep Silver, the team decided to turn Dying Light into a separate game.

[6] The game had sold more than 20 million copies and achieved the highest-selling first month of sales for a new survival-horror intellectual property (IP).

In the game, the player assumes control of Aiden Caldwell (Jonah Scott), who travels to Villedor to search for his lost sister, Mia.

[16] Originally intended as the second downloadable content pack for Dying Light 2, The Beast was spin-off into a standalone game after its initial premise, including details of its story, was leaked in 2023.