Dead Island 2disappeared after its reveal trailer dropped in 2014, but the open world zombie franchise has finally made a comeback, releasing a pair of exciting trailers at Gamescom Opening Night Live and confirming a July 15, 2025 release date.Dead Island 2is aiming for release on current- and next-gen consoles as well as Google Stadia and PC, though those on PC will only be able to get it through the Epic Games Store.
It has long been expected thatDead Island 2would be an Epic Games Store exclusive, but now that the game’s marketing efforts have ramped up, fans have confirmation that this is indeed the case. This may be disappointing news to PC gamers who prefer playing on Steam, especially since the Epic Games Store comes with some drawbacks. While the launcher has made strides in recent years to add new features like achievements, there are still areas where it lags behind the competition, particularly when it comes to pre-loading games.
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Recently,Dead Island 2publisher Deep Silver published theSaints Rowreboot, and it too was an Epic Games Store exclusive. Unfortunately,Saints Rowfans were only able to pre-load the game on PlayStation and Xbox, with technical issues making it impossible for EGS users to do the same. While it’s possibleDead Island 2will avoid a similar fate, the Epic Games Store has had a history of problematic pre-loading, and ifSaints Rowis any indication, those problems have yet to be ironed out.
Pre-loading is especially helpful in this day and age as video game file sizes continue to balloon out of control. At the time of this writing, we have no idea what theDead Island 2file size is going to be, but it’s likely going to be quite a large game. After all,Dead Island 2is an open world game, and those tend to have beefier file sizes. Fans will likely have to wait until we’re much closer toDead Island 2’s release dateto learn specifics about the game’s file size, but regardless, it’s safe to say that pre-loading would be helpful to have, so hopefully it goes off without a hitch.
There are still many questions left to answer as it pertains toDead Island 2. For example, theDead Island 2cinematic trailer at Gamescomconfirmed one of the game’s playable characters out of six, so there’s still quite a few characters left to learn about.
Dead Island 2launches February 3 for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
