Days Gone Remastered Announced for PS5, Launches April 25 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 February 2025 / 4,321 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Bend Studio have announced Days Gone Remastered for the PlayStation 5. It will launch on April 25.
The remaster features improved graphical fidelity, increased foliage draw distance, improved shadow and lighting quality, Tempest 3D Audio, VRR support and more. It will also have new content including a Permadeath mode, an enhanced Photo mode, a Speedrun mode, and a Horde Assault mode.
The PC version of the game will get the new content in the Broken Road DLC, which will be available on April 25 for $10.
View the announcement trailer below:
Read details on the remaster below:
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 $49.99USD.
For new and returning players, you can pre-order Days Gone Remastered starting tomorrow to receive eight new PSN Avatars featuring several of your favourite 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 $10USD 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.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Bluesky.
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At this rate, I'm convinced the rumored GoW remastered collection is actually just a remaster of GoW (2018) lol
Underrated game!
Sheesh this generation is full of remaster
Theres definitely been quite a few remasters on Switch and Xbox... But holy cow Sony is really leading the charge on 1st party remasters the last 2-3 years ðŸ'€
Theres definitely been quite a few remasters on Switch and Xbox... But holy cow Sony is really leading the charge on 1st party remasters the last 2-3 years
I just hope the creator of the game gets his royalties
I'll pick this up for $10
Hmm i don't know... one side of me is telling me: Meh another remaster, the other one is telling me, why not!? For the ones who like it? Sometimes remasters, especially remakes can really be quite good... Much better than cross gen!
i will probably play through it again thats only if they have ironed out the bugs/glitches from the original
The bugs and glitches were taken care of close to the launch window with patch 1.60.
I really enjoyed this game, but a Remaster isn't what gamers want, we want a sequel.
A sequel is also more work. Perhaps this is Bend getting more experience with the PS5, especially Pro, and it's also a cheap way to keep the game in people's minds. I also suspect the PC version has been more popular than Sony anticipated, so perhaps Sony is also releasing this to test how much interest there would be in a sequel at some point.
I honestly think it has more to do with the establishment of Sony's live service ambitions that most likely started 5-6 years ago where majority of their studios were assigned to make them that really messed up their long-term development pipeline. And with the combination of how long it takes to make a single player AAA game these days (Jason Schreier saying in 2022 I believe, that if a studio started work on a AAA game then, it wouldn't release until the PS6) it made the most sense to release consistent remasters as stop gaps. Would be a lot easier to remaster a PS4 game instead of a PS3 or PS2 game.
And with how many cancelled live service games there have been from Sony over the past year, it'll take at least a few years to truly right the ship.
I don't think your explanation really opposes mine, I think it just augments it. Game development takes longer and is more costly, so naturally publishers want to find new ways to make money, especially between releases. Remasters fit in the picture really well, whether it's live service games or more traditional releases. Sony has probably thought of other advantages to this approach as well, but they're probably not as significant.
I fail to see how it "makes sense" when the majority of these remasters are just a Pro version of a Pro version lol
They're basically just selling a patch on top of a patch... 1440p to 4k, with a few extra copy and paste modes
Let's see...
"Perhaps this is Bend getting more experience with the PS5, especially Pro..." Makes sense. It might not be a whole ton of work, but some people are required for these remasters, and it probably makes sense to allocate less experienced personnel to get them more experience.
"...and it's also a cheap way to keep the game in people's minds." Makes sense.
"I also suspect the PC version has been more popular than Sony anticipated, so perhaps Sony is also releasing this to test how much interest there would be in a sequel at some point." Nothing you said disputes this.
Of course if it's such an effortless remaster as you claim, it only makes more sense for Sony, because it's practically guaranteed to be profitable even if it flops. I just don't see how this doesn't make sense for Sony. What I fail to see is how you make sense.
I'm speaking on behalf of the consumers. On a Corp level, its up to them to provide the content and as consumers, we buy what we want.
I know Sonys strategy here, they are trying to sell the game again to boost interest for the IP and fund a sequel, however making people buy a game again even an upgrade isn't the way to do it.
Sadly the consumers are also likely to want this enough to justify releasing this. Too many of us are suckers like that. I really dislike most remasters because they're relatively low-effort releases that bump up the price to ridiculous levels, but enough people don't seem to mind, sadly.
People buy stuff based on instincts and not always because they want it. Plenty will buy a game again to support the devs and other reasons. But most of these people are stuck in that circle of consuming products because its new or new again.
Companies know this and in many cases prey on the weak here.
I garentee if we did a vote on what people really want, a Days Gone Remaster or a Day's Gone 2, the anwser would be pretty clear.
Absolutely.
The team that made Days Gone is Long Gone. It's one of my favorite games of all time, but given Sony's penchant for non-merit based hiring policies, and involvement with industry disease Sweet Baby Inc, who turn most of what they touch into shit, it's probably better to let Days Gone go. The dipshits at Sony made their choice,. One of many, MANY stupid choices.
It's a shame, me and my sister absolutely loved Days Gone, aside from afew loop holes in the story, it was 1 game I wanted to see a sequel for.
You can tell alot of passion and effort was put into this game by the devs.
Pretty sure Days Gone devs pitched a sequel but Sony canned it
