Dead Island Definitive Edition

Absolute classic in the genre 🧟 Not much needs to be said to describe the game: you take a weapon and you kill zombies ⚒️🛡️ It’s extra good in co-op! I do want to point out though that, while the game itself is great, I hated the Ryder White DLC that comes included with it. Literally just instant spawn of those very fast zombies most of the time, and it's not necessarily hard because of that, but rather ends up being annoying and a drag. Other than that, I absolutely recommend this game, it’s great fun.

Dead Island – A Bloody Mixed Bag Dead Island is a game that constantly walks the line between fun and frustration. At its best, it delivers visceral, satisfying melee combat with a level of gore that never gets old. Smashing zombies with customized weapons, watching limbs fly off in slow motion — that’s where the game truly shines. You can clearly see the DNA that later evolved into Techland’s stronger titles like Dying Light. But unfortunately, not everything here is as sharp as your machete. The story? It’s serviceable. Yes, it's a little cliché — classic zombie outbreak on a tropical island, lost memories, shadowy corporations — nothing groundbreaking. But it gets the job done and moves the action forward without getting in the way. If you're here for the narrative, manage your expectations. Still, if you stick to the main quests and push through the story, the game becomes a more condensed and entertaining experience. Now for the downsides. And they’re not just minor annoyances — they’re major flaws. The gunplay is bad. Not outdated. Not clunky. Just bad. Guns feel weightless, sound weak, and have terrible feedback. It’s clear the game wasn’t built around them, and once firearms become more prominent, the combat takes a nosedive in quality. Then there’s the map design. It lacks direction, creativity, and cohesion. Environments feel repetitive, quests often force you into boring backtracking, and exploring doesn’t feel rewarding or intuitive. You’re not discovering new exciting zones — you’re just running errands in slightly different flavors of the same place. Despite all this, there's still something oddly enjoyable about Dead Island. It has heart, and when the moment-to-moment melee combat is working, it’s a blast. But if you want to get the most out of it without burning out, I recommend rushing the story and avoiding too much side content. Focus on the highlights, ignore the filler, and enjoy the chaotic charm while it lasts.

I have played this game across multiple platforms now for well over a decade and I still enjoy playing it. Something about tropical island, resort, people, zombies, survival, and making makeshift weapons just absolutely clicks and know many agree with me on this. The Definitive edition is the absolute best way to play overall by far as I own the original as well and although a few things are better overall it is a much improved experience overall with the definitive and alot less bugs to. Between beautiful crystal clear water, smashing a dudes head into pieces, and running around trying to find loved ones lost relatives amongst the jungles and bungalows I slip right into the setting and get to work. For the best experience I say play with your best friends as all different characters for best results but is in no way unenjoyable on your own. 10/10 would love to party with Svetlana again baby OOOOOOO!

Loved this game when I was younger, glad they gave it a glow up to keep it stable/playable for more years to come

Game is really fun honestly, the story though and the way is presented feels incomplete.

Fun and challenging with no change of difficulty making you rely on your own skill and dodging capabilities. Can fill overwhelming at times but dying really isn't anything crazy and the money lost doesn't really matter and if you die alot well as you level up you can reduce amount of cash lost although if you like to explore its easy to gather cash. crafting of weapon abilities is solid too.

Dead Island in 2025 is rough around the edges, but still upholds the co-op theme with a focus on janky melee swings or underwhelming gunfire. This is definitely worth testing the mettle of your friendships.

Great game for a good story line or when you just need to kill something. Played it for years and it just never gets old.

Assim como o standalone riptide, esse jogo funciona muito bem jogado coop, fora o fato de ser maior e bem mais polido que seu standalone. As partes boas do jogo são sem duvidas matar zumbies com uma variedade legal de armas, talentos e habilidades individuais de cada personagem e se assim como eu você assistiu o trailer principal há 14 anos atrás e ficou chocado com o que o jogo poderia ser e mesmo jogando carrega uma nostalgia disso, sim o jogo vale principalmente em oferta, em preço cheio não. A estória embora embalada de melancolia é uma repetição de quests e subquests de ir a um ponto a outro, o creep block é absurdo só é pior no standalone riptide. A punição por morte também é péssima, uma hora de derruba com um hit ou lançando um faca e vc perde 10k de gold. Enfim, meu veredido é deem uma chance e se possível joguem com alguém para melhorar a experiencia.

For its time, it was pretty decent, especially as a friend slop game. Now it definitely feels dated. I would only recommend playing this with your friends, because playing it solo is a slog.

Fetch quest and escort quest is all this game is man. Also it is buggy as well.

Highly replayable zombie RPG. Fun quests, good mix of melee+ranged, worth a replay every year or two in my book.

I love it classical fun brutal i love smashing in heads and cutting them off.

Honestly it's a fine game. Problem with the game is you are really a post man on a island full of zombies. You go and do a mission for someone and see someone in need and then they want you to do something for them and so on and so on. It got boring really quick. The missions all feel the same basically. Go there and see if this person is ok. Go there to pick this up for us. Go there and see if the area is safe ext ext. The weapon breaking system I kinda like. It gives me more stress and more strategy with my weapon and attacks. If it was less go there and then back with every mission, I would have given the game 8.5/10 but due to missions feeling all the same it's a 6/10

Picked up original Dead Island while it was on sale just to give it a try. The game takes place on the tourist paradise island of Banoi during the outbreak of a zombie plague. I guess the Papau New Guinea served as an inspiration for the setting as the game offers a lot of collectibles that provide various facts related to that country island. At the start of the game we're given an option to pick 1 of 4 different characters with which we're going to be playing the game with, each character coming with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, and different backstories to explain as to how they ended up in Banoi at this time. The game also gives you an option of selecting a 5th military looking character however, BE AWARE that this character is a DLC character that has his own story unrelated to the main story of the Dead Island. In fact, by playing that story first will result in some of the end game/ending being spoiled for you so make sure to play that DLC once you complete the main game first. While selecting the mentioned 5th character, the game makes no mention of him being a DLC character nor does it give you any advice to complete the main story before jumping to this one. Once the character is selected, we're brought into the world of Dead Island and after a short intro, we discover that our character is immune to the virus and we're free to explore the island. Banoi is divided into 4 large open world regions with each region being unlocked after progressing the story. The main key feature that separates Dead Island from other zombie games is its gore mechanics. Using a sharp weapon, there literally isn't a piece of zombie body that you can't cut off which makes it a bit fun slaying zombies as body parts and blood fly around the screen. The game offers a wide array of main and side missions that you can undertake however, most of them feel like fetch quests with only a handful of them being a bit of a mix to the formula. The game also offers a wide arrangement of sharp and blunt weapons that can be upgraded, or crafted to have effects like poison or electricity applied to them. Each weapon also degrades with usage hence the need for the repair mechanic which is also in the game. On top of the weapon variety, the game also offers various types of zombies that you can meet out there in the open world which does offer some variety to the gameplay. The sprinting zombies are by far the most annoying as you can't really do anything against them as they charge at you except take a hit, the game does have firing weapons like pistols, rifles, and shotguns however, ammo for these guns is only offered in the 2nd half of the game near the end game so you'll get little usage out of them. The story and the characters of Dead Island feel a bit bland, there's maybe one or 2 memorable characters that you'll meet but most of them you forget after they give you yet another fetch quest, the end game boss is also a bit of joke where the game combines 2 types of the worsest zombies you can imagine into one. The game finally offers 2 DLC levels, one which is the mentioned 5th character, and the Arena mode where you can slay endless hordes of zombies for cash however, my advice is to only play that one if you've got someone else to play the game with. The DLC character does have a more interesting and engaging story in comparison with the main game however gameplay wise, it is no different than the main story. Performance wise the game runs well on Steam Deck as I haven't experienced any crashes or frame drops. On full battery, you should be able to squeeze out about 2 - 3 hours of gameplay before needing a recharge. Overall, Dead Island is an OK game, the story along with the DLC can be cleared in about 40 hours of gameplay. The gore mechanics certainly make the game fun at 1st but does get repetitive after a while, and the lack of interesting story or characters could result in you losing the engagement to the game quick. Not the best, but certainly not the worst game I have played.

the only way im surviving is by treating like most of the population became crackheads experiencing withdrawal symptoms and just became violent - signed by your substance producer, Daniel Burgermeister

It's a great game, it doesn't break any boundaries, classic hack and slash with zombies and collect loot :)

If you want to play a really fun and engaging zombie games with good combat, Dead Island probably still has that title even in 2025. Expect a good combat with a lot of weapon with it's various customization, but don't ask much of long range weapon, this game basically a fun punch for melee combat. Other than that, the story and quest design is pure trash, yet still enjoyable if you did not care much about that. Basically, if you had a bad day, play this game and wrecks zombies head and limbs

techland cooked, very much like their other game but more summer themed. weapons are kind of mid tho

played this game over 10 times start to end ive been coming back to it for years first time playing this was on xbox 360 i played it when it first came out to this day still over all one of the best first person zombie games ever i love the first one too cant help but immerse in the story line and the large amount of weapon mods u can find n craft this game was ahead of its time paved a way into my heart thru all the chaos and juicy story i do recommend its a solid game where it proves the developers actually love making everything thing about this game from the scenery to the characters there backgrounds to everything overall the hours ive spent near banoi the lab the city the jungle to the police station and the piers the ship prolly a solid 5k hours just in my life

Cool sandboxy game with a beautiful environment, scary but (mostly) beatable foes, lots to do do and collect, and a nice levelling system. Downsides: Clearly designed for an optimised multiplayer experience (up to 4 PCs), afaict it lacks third-person view, so I rarely see my character, and I would have liked a stronger roleplay element, the only dialogue options are yes/no to quest requests.

veeeeery buggy but kinda fun the story is trying to be emotional but it fails to do so with the bugs and horrid graphics as well as the voice acting i <3 sam b

its a great game for somebody with low end deivce.the graphic with the requirement is insane.plus it a great way to check if u are into this type of game before buying the latest game

the first act was a bit frustrating, but after that, you adjust. It is mainly for open world zombie hack and slash. Mod and upgrade your weapons as soon as you can. the modding is really one of the best part of the game. the gameplay gets more interesting in the later half. Also, the weapons have rarity with white= common and green=rare, blue ,purple and yellow rarity. invest in rare weapons and experiment with mods. You should definitely buy it on sale if you like zombie hack and slash.

I tried this game for 13hrs and its not crazy to say that this might be the worse game I have played in a very long time. I mean it's a game from the early 2010s but there are some gems that still hold their ground against some new titles that were produced in the same era as this game. Repetitive is an understatement when describing the gameplay of this game, Someone tells you to do something and you just have to do it, too bad its the same things over and over, find this, protect this guy, kills a bunch of zombies. I genuinely cannot finish this game as I am completely tired of it and I dont think I can find the mental strength to finish it. I will try Dead Island 2 see if its any better.

look, it's a decent co-op experience, but i wouldn't necessarily *recommend* it to anybody, especially at full price. it is like junk food. there is fun to be had in the amount of jank here and experiencing that with your friends, but the game itself is lacking polish and honestly just feels like a time sink. i think the missions are lacking and at times things just aren't... telegraphed well. definitely not worth playing by yourself.

Runs terribly, i got a decent pc and this game is old enough that it should run smoothly but it makes my pc sound like its going to explode.

Awful cash grab, they completely ruined what was a great and timeless game. I absolutely loved the original game, owned it on 3 separate platforms. I wanted to share this experience with someone who had not played it yet, but they no longer sell the original game, and now only sell this trash version. My disappointment is immeasurable. I had to buy this version as well, because you cannot co-op between the two versions. They changed quite a few things, including ruining the the visual completely, as well as the character controls, it feels like you are playing as a drunk person. If Steam would let me refund it, I would. This dumpster fire is not worth sharing with others. I feel bad for those who were unable to buy the original.

The game is pretty mediocre in my opinion but I'd still give it a thumbs up if it would run properly! I have a 4070Ti Super and a 7800X3D and this game runs terrible! It'll run smooth for a few seconds, then start stuttering and lagging, rinse and repeat. I just can't deal with it long enough to finish the game! If it wasn't for that, I'd recommend it.

could be fun with friends, but if you are a player who loves a good story you wouldn't like it much, the story is messy kind of unrealistic (it throws you off) and the characters are forgettable, quests are repeatable and boring and we just skipped the side quests after awhile, you mostly run around grabbing stuff take stuff etc I would say the whole game is underwhelming and would't recommend it if you are expecting a game with rich story or characters lore. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☑ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Graphics are laggy, the combat is god awful, the story line is boring. This game had so much potential, but the devs really dropped the ball on this one.

I show up expecting a relaxing vacation… and end up smashing skulls with a kayak paddle in my swim trunks .

R.I.P 😭 JIN 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Story is Good i almost grind Solo in Campaign Completed 100% well my most of time taken by that "Explore The Whole Island 😭" - There and back again(GUIDES) Achievement lol tips from game start to end i suggest you explore the whole island plus fast travel to every place and every roads and paths by vehicle or just running... Well sometimes got into shutters problem but can be manageable and can be fixed easily instantly(GUIDES), make sure check GUIDES. Now, multiplayer i met new new players sometimes i make new friends 🙂😸i played with them enjoy a lot. together doing quest makes the game easy for me. well on sunday or weekends people active more you can find them in public matchmaking.NOTE: many people don't talk in voice chat many dont know how to chat in game well PRESS "ENTER" then chat with each other in-game 🙂😸 have fun! A decent game 10/10 for chill and explore and killing zombies more fun and speed game complete if you have your own friend squad 🔪🔫🧟🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

If you've grown weary of Dying Light and you've never played this, grab it on discount and have a great time with some co-op friends.

4 people coop, what else do you want more? Now go forth and bludgeon zombies.

They should not have delisted the original when they released this defective edition asset flip.

love it, a true classic kick ass game 10/10

You can kill zombies, lots of weapons to upgrade and ruin, you can kill zombies, kil kill kill

Dont buy if you are going to be playing on Linux, it doesn't play nice with it.

I've made a huge mistake playing Dead Island 2 first, but still a good game!

Honestly... Even brainwashing couldn't make me enjoy or recommend this.

Fun time. Not as good as the trailer

Dead Island Definitive Edition — The Ultimate Zombie Survival Party! 🧟‍♂️🌴🔥 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5) If you’re craving that perfect blend of open-world zombie chaos, beach vibes, and visceral melee combat, Dead Island Definitive Edition is an absolute must-play! 🏝️⚔️ Why I’m hooked: 1. Immersive Tropical Apocalypse 🌞➡️☠️ The island setting is stunning — lush palm trees, sunny beaches, and vibrant villages all twisted by the zombie outbreak. The contrast between paradise and horror keeps you on your toes and hungry for more. 2. Melee Combat That Hits HARD! 🔨🗡️ Forget shooting endless ammo—this game nails brutal melee with a crazy variety of weapons. From chainsaws to cricket bats, smashing zombies never gets old. The weapon crafting and modding system adds a sweet layer of customization that keeps fights fresh and fun. 3. Deep RPG Elements & Progression 🎯📈 Each character feels unique with their own skill trees and perks. Leveling up and specializing in your favorite playstyle (stealth, brawler, or ranged) is super satisfying. Team up with friends for co-op mayhem or take on the campaign solo — both work brilliantly! 4. Story & Side Quests That Pull You In 📜👥 While the main plot sets a solid zombie apocalypse tone, the side quests add humor, mystery, and emotional moments. Plus, the dialogue and voice acting deliver some memorable lines (and groans) that keep things entertaining. 5. Definitive Edition Polishes & Extras 🛠️✨ The Definitive Edition upgrades textures, lighting, and overall visuals — the island never looked better. Plus, it bundles all DLCs and expansions, so you’re getting the full Dead Island experience in one package. Some minor notes: The story pacing can feel slow at times, but the open-world exploration and combat more than make up for it. Occasional bugs and glitches pop up but nothing game-breaking — easily patched and mostly just funny moments. If you’re expecting ultra-realistic zombies, this leans more towards fun and chaos than hardcore horror. Final verdict: Dead Island Definitive Edition is a love letter to zombie survival fans who want action, customization, and a tropical twist. It’s messy, thrilling, and addictive in all the right ways. Perfect for long solo sessions or tearing it up with friends. If you love zombies and melee combat, this game will absolutely slay you (in the best way). ⚰️❤️ Play it. Survive it. Love it. 🙌🔥🧟‍♀️ If you found this review helpful, smash that upvote button! 👍✨

it is a good game but just get dying light

always loved this game, i have it for PS4 as well

A Great Vacation To Kill The Undead.

cant even sprint, sad..

Still a goldie. You won't regret it if you get it.

Not a good game for solos

dying light on low budget.