Developers at Techland have gone above and beyond to support their releases long after launch. Still to this day, for example, the parkour zombie-survival great Dying Light gets updates with new events, contents, and fixes over a decade since its release in 2015, as does its less beloved sequel Dying Light 2. Continuing on this trend, Techland announced earlier today in a Youtube video that they’re introducing a new edition for last year’s Dying Light: The Beast (which was almost a contender for our top 10 of 2025) that adds a never-before-seen innovative gamemode hinted at by its title: Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land.

The Restored Land mode puts a unique spin on the game’s Alps-inspired world of Castor Woods that drastically shakes up the way you play. Unlike the base game, zombies will be dead for good when you kill them, meaning that the whole map becomes a giant, bloody, clean-up project for you to endeavor on. And theoretically, this would make traversing Castor Woods much safer, as you could rest easy in any area that you’ve cleared, but it’s more complicated than that. All resources and events are limited and one-time only in Restored Land, shops are way pricier, and to boot, your hunger drains faster and your flashlight will demand battery replacements. But if that still doesn’t sound hard enough or pique your interest, you can also play with an Ironman mode enabled called One Life that will delete your save if you die. If you think you have what it takes to beat Restored Land, there are exclusive in-game rewards for those that surmount the challenge this mode has to offer–not that hardcore gamers are the type to need external incentives.

Outside of this new mode, Techland is adding a new vehicle event that has you run over zombies under a time-crunch, and it promises a reward of a suped-up version of the game’s ubiquitous truck. Additionally, the developers claim they’ve added “new finishers, new achievements, new quest encounters, and multiple gameplay and performance improvements,” though specifics on that haven’t been divulged yet. The new edition of Dying Light: The Beast launches March 26th, and will be free for all existing owners of the game. It should be clarified that the “edition” label doesn’t mean that the game is actually getting a whole new separate version, and is rather just a marketing term Techland also used for Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition to describe the giant update they made similar to Restored Land.