The Epic Games Store is known for regularly giving away games that players can grab and keep forever. Now for Easter, they have a special treat on offer with Dying Light, but we in Germany are left empty-handed.
This is the promotion:
- It is currently in gaming news worldwide that Epic Games is giving away the zombie hit Dying Light for Easter.
- The zombie parkour game was released in 2015 and received decent but not outstanding reviews at launch. However, it has been improved with updates and new content over the past 7 years, so it currently holds an extremely strong rating on Steam. With 276,000 reviews, it is rated “overwhelmingly positive” – it doesn’t get better than this. Currently, it still has about 6,000 average players on Steam.
- The Epic Games Store is giving away the “Enhanced Edition” from May 2022 for one week from April 6 to April 13, 2023.
“We Germans only get cow dung!”
What’s the problem in Germany? If you hop into the Epic Games Store in Germany happily this Easter, you won’t find Dying Light there. While Dying Light 2 is available and there are many updates for the game, Dying Light itself is not available, let alone for free.
Instead, Epic Games is offering “Shapez”, an “automation” game that at first glance looks like the dream of every Excel lover.
This does not go down well on Twitter:
In Germany, we don’t get Dying Light because it has been indexed by the Federal Review Board for Youth-Endangering Media on list A of youth-endangering media. Meanwhile, Dying Light 2 received a USK-18 rating.
Looks like a sad Easter for zombie fans.
If you want to learn about part 2 of Dying Light:
I played Dying Light 2 for 45 hours – How brutal is the cut version still?
The title image is from Dying Light 2 – we didn’t dare to use one from part 1, it’s just too brutal and banned in Germany.
