Ray tracing confirmed for Dying Light: The Beast, The Outer Worlds 2, and more

It's taken a couple of years (and a couple of GPU generations), but ray-tracing is slowly becoming a mainstay or feature in primarily single-player titles. Although the technology is still associated with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX hardware, thanks to its more advanced ray-tracing capabilities and RTX technologies like DLSS, ray-tracing is a big part of Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro console and a big part of AMD's new Radeon RX 9000 Series.

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As part of its Gamescom 2025 presentation that touched on all things gaming, from GeForce NOW's big RTX Blackwell overhaul through to RTX Remix updates and the first AI-driven game built using NVIDIA ACE technologies, NVIDIA has also confirmed that 10 high-profile games at the show will be launching with ray-tracing and DLSS 4 support.

Ray-tracing and DLSS go hand-in-hand. The technology was initially developed to leverage AI to boost the performance of the then brand-new real-time ray-tracing on the GeForce RTX 20 Series back in 2018. DLSS, like ray-tracing, has come a long way, so expect the following titles to look fantastic when they make their PC debut.

As detailed in a separate article, Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem, which is one of the most highly anticipated games currently on the horizon, will be launching with full path-tracing and DLSS 4 support. And keeping things in the survival horror space, Supermassive Games' sci-fi thriller Directive 8020 will also launch with path-tracing and DLSS 4 support in 2026.

Ray-tracing varies from title to title, and depending on the intended use, it can cover a single lighting effect like shadows or reflections, or a whole suite of things, including global illumination. Path-tracing is the RT endgame, so to speak, ray-tracing for everything, and with that, we're still waiting on information on what ray-tracing effects will be included in each game (stay tuned), but you can look forward to ray-tracing in the following titles.

• Resident Evil Requiem (Capcom, February 2026)
• Directive 8020 (Supermassive Games, 2026)
• Black State (Motion Blur, TBC)
• Cronos: The New Dawn (Bloober Team, September 6, 2025)
• Dying Light: The Beast (Techland, September 19, 2025)
• Honeycomb: The World Beyond (Frozen Way, 2025)
• Lost Soul Aside (Ultizero Games, August 30, 2025)
• The Outer Worlds 2 (Obsidian, October 30, 2025)
• Phantom Blade Zero (S-GAME, TBC)
• PRAGMATA (Capcom, 2026)