Days Gone Remastered on PS5 is a really interesting game because it’s not the low-effort resolution and frame rate upgrade you tend to find with these types of projects.

Tech experts Digital Foundry have put the re-release through its paces, and perhaps the most interesting wrinkle here is how Bend Studio has turned it into more of a horror game.

The original release, at night, always had extremely blown-out lighting, which made midnight look more like dusk. But in this remaster, the entire game has been relit, so deep blacks contrast against searing whites.

It’s not so dark that you’ll need to fiddle with your contrast – the developer’s still taken into account playability here – but in our opinion it looks much more foreboding. We love how protagonist Deacon’s motorcycle headlights brighten up the whole scene as you’re riding along otherwise pitch-black roads.

The downside to all this is that image quality does take a dip – even compared to the PS4 version running with backwards compatibility. While performance is overall more stable, the remaster runs at 1440p without any upscaling, while the original used checkerboard rendering to get to 4K.

Not even the PS5 Pro fixes this issue, as while it’s running at a much better 1800p, it still doesn’t have quite that same clarity of the original PS4 game at 60fps.