Bend Studio Showcases Days Gone Remastered, Reveals New Modes & Content

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Days Gone Remastered rides onto PlayStation 5 and PC April 25, 2025! A game nearest and dearest to our hearts, with our good partners at Climax Studios, we strived to make this the definitive way to play Days Gone for new and returning players. Step into the dirt flecked shoes of former outlaw biker Deacon St. John and feel his desperate struggle for survival in a brutal open world ravaged by feral creatures known as Freakers. We at Bend Studio are very excited to share our first look at Days Gone Remastered with our announcement trailer, giving you a sneak peek of brand-new content to play!

Built for the PS5
Days Gone Remastered is brought to new life by the PlayStation 5 console featuring improved graphical fidelity, increased foliage draw distance, improved shadow and lighting quality, Tempest 3D Audio, VRR support and more. Select your preferred playing experience between Quality mode for increased resolution or Performance mode for improved framerates. And with the added power of the PS5 Pro, Days Gone has truly never looked better on PlayStation!




DualSense controller support
Feel the intensity of Days Gone with its full use of the DualSense wireless controller's haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Ride across the Broken Road and feel the rumble of your bike's engine or the wheels gripping the dirt roads in the palm of your hands. Lose yourself in the unique environment of the Pacific Northwest with weather haptics including rain and thunder. Get to grips with the distinct feel and resistance of various weapons from Deacon's arsenal while fighting your way through hordes of Freakers.

New Accessibility features
Accessible play is important to us at Bend Studio. Days Gone Remastered gave us the opportunity to expand our suite of accessibility features, allowing even more players to enjoy our world. To highlight a few of these new settings, Days Gone Remastered includes High Contrast mode, Game Speed, UI Narration, Collectible Audio Cues, Controller Remapping, Field of View slider, and more. Not only is Days Gone Remastered receiving PS5 enhancements, but we're also throwing in new content to play!

Horde Assault—A survival arcade mode
Experience an all-new way to play Days Gone! Horde Assault offers fresh and unexpected gameplay designed to challenge your skills as you try to achieve a high score while surviving as long as possible against increased horde sizes and various other enemies, like vicious survivors and evolved Freakers. And yes, we said increased horde sizes. Good luck.

Travel across familiar regions found in the story including the Cascade, Belknap, Lost Lake, and Crater Lake. But be warned: This World Comes For You. Fight your way through a brutal, ever-changing landscape where enemies escalate in difficulty the longer you survive. Move up in level to earn in-mode rewards with never-before-playable characters, new patch cosmetics, and unique Injectors to greatly impact your gameplay experience. Stay tuned for more information on Horde Assault coming soon!

Permadeath mode
Do you have the skill—and nerve—to take on the ultimate challenge by attempting to finish the compelling story of Deacon St. John's journey in one single playthrough without dying?

In a world where everything is out to kill you, your skills will be tested to the limit and mastery is required to conquer Permadeath mode. If you meet your unfortunate end, you must either return to the beginning of the game or the start of the second act and try your luck again - dependent on which setting you choose. Achieve this great feat and be rewarded with a special graphic recording your time it took to complete, unique stats like how many Freakers you killed during your playthrough, and more. Of course, you'll receive a shiny new PlayStation Trophy as well.

Did we mention that yet? Days Gone Remastered will have a new Trophy pack for you to unlock, specifically for the new game modes! Go get 'em trophy hunters.

Additional content
But wait, there's more! We love our Days Gone community and wanted to provide a small gift that keeps on giving. At launch, Days Gone Remastered will get another game mode. Equip your nitrous and race against the clock in the all-new Speedrun mode; you'll need to play through the story as quickly as possible. Be sure to share your best times with a special end game graphic to post on social media!

For all our virtual photographers out there, we are pleased to announce our Enhanced Photo Mode. That's right, the Photo Mode you've come to love is getting an improvement. Take out your virtual camera once more with additions such as time-of-day setting, a three-point lighting system, and new logo options. We cannot wait to see what new shots you will come up with!

Pricing and pre-order bonuses
Days Gone Remastered lands on PlayStation 5 as a digital-only title on April 25, 2025! For players that have purchased Days Gone on PlayStation 4, you can upgrade to Days Gone Remastered including all new content and features for $10USD. For new players who do not own Days Gone, you can purchase Days Gone Remastered for $49.99 USD.



For new and returning players, you can pre-order Days Gone Remastered starting tomorrow to receive eight new PSN Avatars featuring several of your favorite Days Gone characters at launch, along with five Early Unlocks to gain a slight advantage when you hit the Broken Road for the first time in the Story.



Available on PC
To our PC community, rest assured that all new content and features will be coming to Days Gone on Steam and the Epic Games Store day-and-date, April 25, 2025!

For all owners of Days Gone on PC, you can purchase the Broken Road DLC for only $10 USD to receive:

• Horde Assault - A survival arcade mode
• Permadeath mode
• Speedrun mode
• DualSense haptic feedback support
• New Accessibility features
• Enhanced Photo Mode

If you do not own Days Gone on PC, you must buy the full version of Days Gone to also purchase the Broken Road DLC.

Stay tuned to Bend Studio on your favorite social media channels to get you ready for the road to launch!

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[Onasi]

Days Gone was probably the most “yup, this is a Sony exclusive” game of all time. I think if you open the dictionary on a page for “mediocre AAA console slop” screenshots from this game will accompany the definition. Seeing them actually put resources into remastering it is wild since it means that enough people actually bought it.

 

[the54thvoid]

I loved it on PC. Superb game, apart from Sony's insistence on playable cut scenes where all you do is walk.

 

[dgianstefani]

Lmao, no idea where Onasi is coming from or if he even played the game but it was rather good.

 

[Onasi]

Lmao, no idea where Onasi is coming from or if he even played the game but it was rather good.

Of course I did. I don’t usually comment on games that I have not played. I played it near release on the PS4. It was mediocrity incarnate. Though I do admit that I have some bias in this regard since open-world fatigue has set-in a long time ago for me, I played Horizon around the same time as well which might have colored my perception and I personally would really prefer to see another Syphon Filter from Bend rather than whatever DG was. Note how I didn’t say DG was a BAD game - I said it was mediocre, unremarkable. I don’t know about you all, but to me that is actually worse than a bad game. Bad games can be amusing or broken in hilarious ways or even have some awesome ideas in an overall bad package. Alpha Protocol is the usual example I would go to. But just competently executed mediocre AAA template is boring TO ME. I can’t control other people’s taste, unfortunately (this is a joke).

 

[AsRock]

Additional content
But wait, there's more! We love our Days Gone community and wanted to provide a small gift that keeps on giving

Gift ?, don't they say it costs $10 ?.

How ever if you never played this you might want too even more so if you like a good story, movement's a little janky but still a great game.