Dying Light: The Beast, crossed 2.2B zombie kills in 12 days

Two weeks after launch on September 18, 2025, the global counter showed 2,289,451,369 zombies down. I had just posted a short launch piece on September 19, 2025, and two weeks later the counter had already crossed 2.2 billion. That jump says a lot about how fast players settled into the loop.

What that number actually covers

The total pulls from normal play. Headshots, Molotovs, flamethrower burns, run overs, dismemberments, and the usual last second scrambles at night all feed the counter. It is not tied to a single event or one farm trick, it reflects regular combat across modes.

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Quick breakdowns for context

Numbers from Techland’s October 3, 2025 stats, as reported by PC Gamer.

Why it climbed so fast

Traversal gives you speed, the toolset gives you options, and the city begs for experiments. Parkour into a dropkick, swap to a camp axe with fire and shock, toss a bottle, then mop up with a revolver headshot. That rhythm settles in quickly, so people start running efficient routes, solo or co op, and the counter snowballs.

A quick gut check

Picture a crowd of fifty thousand. At this pace, that crowd is gone in under thirty seconds. Then you do it again. And again. For two straight weeks.

What the first two weeks felt like

Fast city, sharp tools, and a counter that never stops ticking. It plays like parkour first action where every fight turns into a quick puzzle, and the reward is that number rolling higher. Those first days had real momentum, the kind that makes you load in for one run and stay for five.