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Dead Island Definitive Edition

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2016

Should you play it?

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

What works

  • Fun co-op multiplayer experience
  • Extensive weapon crafting and customization
  • Open world exploration with diverse locations
  • Improved graphics and stable performance in definitive edition
  • Engaging melee combat with satisfying gore effects

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive quests and side missions
  • Some bugs and technical issues remain
  • Clunky vehicle controls and movement
  • Weak and generic story with poor character development
  • Motion sickness issues due to camera effects

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

  • Serious Sam 4

  • Far Cry® 6

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Dead Island 2

  • Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition

More intimate

Games that feels like Dead Island Definitive Edition but with more focus on close relationships

  • Grounded 2

  • Left 4 Dead 2

  • Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Strange Brigade

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Dying Light

  • Dying Light: The Beast

  • Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

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Similarity map

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Dead Island Definitive Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026