During our Summer Game Fest 2025 interview with Tymon Smektała, we asked the Techland Dying Light Franchise Director whether there were any plans to bring Dying Light: The Beast to the Nintendo Switch 2 console. Without promising anything, Smektała was very open about his desire to do it at some stage:

I would love this to happen at some point, but nothing to announce at this time.

On one hand, Techland’s Director has detailed several technical improvements made to the C-Engine for Dying Light: The Beast:

We have also improved the visuals a lot. Our in-house C-Engine engine went through a number of iterations. Now, all the weather effects, the rendering of materials, lighting, shadows, and how the sun moves in the sky. All of those things are on a completely different level compared to Dying Light 2: Stay Human. 

On the other hand, the game is one of the very few to be still targeting a launch on old-generation consoles (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) in 2025. As such, there’s little doubt that the Nintendo Switch 2 could run the game in terms of raw power. It’s rather a matter of opportunity, then. With the launch sales it’s had so far, it would seem like a no-brainer to bring a game to Nintendo’s console, but that doesn’t mean it would be easy for the Polish developer.

The first Dying Light only launched on the Switch six and a half years after the game’s original debut in 2015. It took the opportunity to gather all DLCs into a Platinum Edition that launched everywhere and added the Switch version. Whether Techland plans to do the same for this ‘unofficial third game’ remains to be seen.

As a reminder, Dying Light 2: Stay Human was announced to be coming to the original Nintendo Switch through a cloud version that, however, never materialized.