Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Released Aug 2010

Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)

68% positive · 9,838 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days launched on August 17, 2010, and all three of its DLC packs shipped on August 31, 2010 — just two weeks after release. IO Interactive has made no announcements of additional content at any point since then, and there are no unreleased DLC entries on the store. The game was released as a complete product with a small batch of launch-window DLC, and that content cycle wrapped up in August 2010. The only developer activity since then is a maintenance update on May 28, 2026, in which Square Enix added Steam Cloud support to the game as part of a broader effort to improve their classic back catalogue. This patch explicitly frames the game as a legacy title being preserved, not one in active development — the same treatment was applied to Sleeping Dogs and Just Cause 3. No new gameplay content was introduced or announced.
Evidence
The Doggie Bag DLC released on August 31, 2010 — part of the launch-window content wave
dlc listing · Aug 31, 2010 source content shipped
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Alliance Weapon Pack DLC released on August 31, 2010
dlc listing · Aug 31, 2010 source content shipped
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Content

3 of 3 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Square Enix
Achievements
58
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

Play as two of gaming's most disturbing and realistic criminals; Lynch – a self medicated psychopath - and Kane - a disillusioned and desperate ex-mercenary, in a gritty and brutal crime shooter from IO Interactive. Kane and Lynch face the consequences of their actions when a simple job gone wrong finds them on a desperate and frantic struggle to escape. Experience their fight to survive through the back streets and rooftops of Shanghai’s gritty underworld. They can trust no one, not even each other as the cracks begin to appear in Lynch’s sanity and Kane’s stability.
Non-stop action in Single Player, online Co-op and Multiplayer. New and unique Fragile Alliance multiplayer game modes provide an experience to suit all criminal minds.
  • Raw, Real & Uncut - Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days introduces a unique, unseen visual style to video games. Taking visual references from documentary filmmaking and the user-generated era, Kane & Lynch 2 delivers a sense of intense realism never before experienced.
  • Play as Lynch - Play as Lynch and follow his story. He is living a comfortable life in Shanghai, he’s making money and is about to make a fat deal where the pay is beyond his wildest dreams and nothing is going to get in his way.
  • Down Not Dead - Adding further intensity to the brutal gameplay, players will have a second chance at taking out their enemies; Choose between continuing the gunfight from the ground or try to escape by crawling towards cover.
  • Online Co-op - Play as Kane and Lynch
  • Fragile Alliance - The highly celebrated multiplayer experience returns with a collection of new and improved modes.
  • From the Creators of the Critically Acclaimed Hitman Series - The studio behind the best-selling Hitman titles and 2007’s Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.
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