- Dying light Franchise director Tymon Smeectała has said that Dying Light: The Beast will answer a number of unanswered questions including why Kyle Crane has returned
- Smectała said The beast Don’t have a branching tale because Techland wanted the game to be cannon
- He also said the game is “a very canonical kyle story that answers everything that happens to him”
Dying Light: The Beast is ready to see the return of former series protagonist Kyle Crane, but developer Techland has said fans will have to play the game to find out.
In an interview with Techradar Gaming at Summer Game Fest 2025, franchise director Tymon Smektała explained that one of the goals of Dying Light: The Beast is to offer answers to “a number of unanswered questions”, including why Kyle Crane has returned.
At the end of Dying Light: The followingThe players are presented with two possible results for the character: Kyle will be fully infected or killed in a nuclear explosion.
In spite of these endings, The beast Will again star Kyle, but Smeectała emphasized that the players will have to play the game to find out why.
“Play the game, play the game to get that answer. But actually, that’s what’s one of the goals,” said Smektała. “That’s one of those kind of things about Dying Light: The Beastis that we will answer a number of unanswered questions from previous games, and I say plural games meaningfully and reasonably. “
Smektała said this is one of the reasons why The beast Don’t have a branching story because the team wanted the game to be cannon and put on the same timeline as the previous games.
“There is a continuity in all these games,” he continued. “If we were to give the player agency in terms of how they will shape the story, it will be harder for us to have Kyle where we want him to have at the end of this game.
“Then this is like a very canonical Kyle story that answers everything that happens to him before, after the events of Dying Light: The followingBut also put him a little into the future. “
Smeectała added that the upcoming game will also have scenes after credit like the MCU movies that will “imply some things that will happen in the future” but did not give anything away.
Dying Light: The Beast will be launched on August 22 for PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC. It was originally developed as downloadable content (DLC) to Dying light 2: Become a humanBut Techland announced last year that the project had become an independent title.
