The overlooked games of 2015: Dying Light

It’s easy to forget something from January when you’re looking back in December. But for me, one of the year’s early surprise hits is hard to forget.

At the end of January, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released Dying Light for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and the critics were quick to point out that it felt a lot like an Assassin’s Creed or Far Cry. And that is true. Dying Light is an open-world action game with a world map that fills up with markers you need to explore. But I felt at the time, and my opinion on this has only solidified since, that most people were missing something deeper and more rewarding.