If you preordered Dying Light: The Beast, hoping to play it on your PS4 or Xbox One, that day is never coming, and Techland wants to make it up to you.
The studio confirmed on July 14 that the last-gen ports of The Beast are officially dead. Dying Light: The Beast launched back in September 2025 exclusively on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with Techland promising an eventual last-gen release to follow. That promise quietly slipped through 2025 and into 2026, and now it’s gone for good.
Techland says the open world, visuals, and parkour-driven combat simply demand more processing power and memory than a PS4 or Xbox One can offer, and finishing the ports would have meant gutting the experience the team built.
Why Techland Pulled the Plug on Last-Gen And How to Get Your Money Back
Techland framed the cancellation as a technical call, not an abandonment of loyal fans. In its statement, the studio said The Beast was built from the ground up around current-gen hardware, and that porting it down would have forced compromises the team wasn’t willing to make.
That explanation aligns with a broader industry trend. Games like Gotham Knights and Hogwarts Legacy skipped last-gen consoles entirely, and even Cyberpunk 2077 eventually left PS4 and Xbox One behind for its biggest updates.
But Techland says anyone who preordered or was expecting a PS4 or Xbox One copy is eligible for a refund, but the studio hasn’t laid out a dedicated claims process. That means you’ll need to go through the standard channels for whichever storefront you used.
On PlayStation, head to the PlayStation Support site, open Transaction History, find your Dying Light: The Beast preorder, and select Request Refund. If that option doesn’t show up right away, use the online Refund Assistant chatbot to explain the situation, since a canceled port should qualify as faulty or unavailable content rather than a simple change of mind.
On Xbox, the process runs through the Xbox order history page or Xbox Support chat, where you’ll flag the purchase as a title that will no longer release on your platform.
Have your account details, purchase date, and platform ready before you start. Since this is a publisher-initiated cancellation rather than a buyer’s remorse situation, refund requests tied to The Beast should move faster than a typical case.
For PS4 owners who already have Kyle Crane’s story in their library through PS5 or Xbox Series X/S, none of this changes anything. Techland says post-launch content and updates for the current-gen versions of The Beast will continue to roll out as planned.
The bigger takeaway here might be for the franchise going forward. With last-gen support officially off the table for The Beast, it’s looking increasingly likely that whatever Techland builds next in the Dying Light universe won’t be landing on PS4 or Xbox One at all.
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