This time, it's the total opposite of a delay.

After being delayed several times already, one might expect that another news post about Dead Island 2's release date means yet another delay was announced. Thankfully, today's Dead Island 2 release date news is good! After slipping from a February 3, 2023 release to an April 28, 2023 release, it was announced today that Dead Island 2 will now be out on April 21, 2023!

It's not a whole heck of a lot of time, but moving that meandering date up by a week does feel pretty good after the game was pushed back so many times before.

Today's announcement of the earlier release date coincides with word that Dead Island 2 has gone gold. This means that the game is ready for mass reproduction onto retail discs. That's not to say there won't be some sort of a day one patch or anything, but it at least means that the game is "complete" and in a state where it works and can (presumably) be completed without any further updates.


Dead Island 2 was first announced roughly ten years ago. From all of the recent media, it's looking like it will be a fun zombie-slaying romp. We have just about two months to go now before we find out for sure. Dead Island 2 will be out on PC via the Epic Games Store on April 21. A Steam release might be coming much further down the road, but nothing has been announced. It's also coming on April 21st for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.