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Dead by Daylight

Platforms

Nintendo Switch
PC
PS4
Xbox One

Initial release June 14, 2016

Developers

Behaviour Digital
Behaviour Interactive

Genres

Action Adventure
Indie
Simulation
Strategy

Publishers

Behaviour Interactive
Starbreeze Studios

Franchise Dead by Daylight

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Dead by Daylight Spotlight

Dead By Daylight's Behaviour Interactive hooks Darkest Dungeon developer

"The way is lit. The path is clear."

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Dead by Daylight codes

And how to redeem DBD codes.
Feature | The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

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Dead by Daylight PvE spin-off Project T cancelled after "unsatisfactory" player testing

Was announced back in May.

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Dead by Daylight Feed

This could be a scene from a Japanese horror film, except it looks like a scene from an old adventure game. It's painted in two colours, one a kind of brown for the environment, and one in purple showing a hunched over girl holding the end of a bed, hair obscuring her face. She is out to get you.

Feature

The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

Dead by Daylight Alan Wake artwork showing Alan Wake shining a torch at a monster.

Guide

Dead by Daylight codes

And how to redeem DBD codes.

Oct. 18, 2024 Ford James

Darkest Dungeon

News

Dead By Daylight's Behaviour Interactive hooks Darkest Dungeon developer

"The way is lit. The path is clear."

Sept. 24, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

Promotional art showing one of Dead by Daylight's masked killers, silhouetted against a raging fire in the forest.

News

Dead by Daylight PvE spin-off Project T cancelled after "unsatisfactory" player testing

Was announced back in May.

Sept. 17, 2024 Matt Wales

An image from Dead by Daylight's Castlevania collaboration trailer showing Trevor Belmont from behind as he stares out across a valley at Dracula's fog-shrouded castle, looming beneath a vast full moon.

News

Dead by Daylight's Castlevania collaboration adds Dracula and Trevor Belmont later this month

Available now on PC public testing.

Aug. 6, 2024 Matt Wales

A screenshot from The Casting of Frank Stone showing a masked serial killer wielding a knife, standing against the fiery backdrop of a steel mill.

News

Until Dawn studio's Dead by Daylight spin-off The Casting of Frank Stone out in September

Plus cross-progression and 2v8 dated.

July 16, 2024 Matt Wales

Lara Croft in Dead by Daylight

News

Tomb Raider's Lara Croft coming to Dead by Daylight

Fog of war.

June 25, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

Artwork of Vecna the new lich Killer from the Dead by Daylight Dungeons & Dragons chapter

News

Dead by Daylight adding Dungeons & Dragons and Castlevania chapters this year

Everything from the Behaviour anniversary stream.

May 14, 2024 Ed Nightingale

Dead by Daylight and Dungeons & Dragons logos in front of a dark grate

News

Dead by Daylight teases dark fantasy era with Dungeons & Dragons themed collaboration

Full showcase due next week.

May 9, 2024 Ed Nightingale

Big Head Sonic April Fools Day 2024

News

2024's best April Fools' Day jokes includes Sonic, Cyberpunk, Elden Ring

Two and a laugh men.

April 2, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

Dead by Daylight x Iron Maiden

News

Dead by Daylight teams up with Iron Maiden

Plus new Chapter coming next month.

Feb. 22, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

Dead by Daylight

News

Layoffs hit Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive, report says

UPDATE: Behaviour Interactive responds.

Jan. 18, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

Alan Wake in Dead by Daylight shining his torch on an axe-wielding killer.

News

Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight later this month

Light fantastic.

Jan. 9, 2024 Matt Wales

Chucky the doll holding a knife in Dead by Daylight

News

Dead by Daylight wants your views on these proposed game modes

Save the day.

Dec. 24, 2023 Vikki Blake

Chucky the doll holding a knife in Dead by Daylight

News

Dead by Daylight's next Killer is Chucky the murderous doll

Child's play.

Nov. 8, 2023 Ed Nightingale

Stranger Things and Dead by Daylight logos with Steve, Nancy and the Demogorgon

News

Stranger Things returns to Dead by Daylight

Upside down, round and round.

Nov. 7, 2023 Ed Nightingale

Ellen Ripley, viewed from behind, surveys the wreckage of the downed ship Nostromo, moodily rendered against a dark sky.

News

Dead by Daylight's Alien collab confirms Ripley survivor and Xenomorph killer

And it's out later this month.

Aug. 8, 2023 Matt Wales

News

Dead by Daylight reveals official Alien collaboration in new teaser trailer

Full details coming next week.

Aug. 1, 2023 Matt Wales

Nicolas Cage in Dead by Daylight

News

Nicolas Cage is now available in Dead by Daylight

And he can fake his death.

July 5, 2023 Ed Nightingale

Everything announced during Summer Game Fest 2023

News

Everything announced during Summer Game Fest 2023

Alan Wake 2! Mortal Kombat 1! And two Final Fantasy trailers!

June 8, 2023 Lottie Lynn

Dead by Daylight End Transmission key art

News

Dead by Daylight explores sci-fi horror in next chapter

Plus Iron Maiden and Slipknot cosmetics in the works.

May 19, 2023 Ed Nightingale

Nicolas Cage in Dead by Daylight

News

Nicolas Cage will feature in Dead by Daylight

A horror face off.

May 17, 2023 Ed Nightingale

Dead by Daylight Killers

News

Behaviour Interactive rollbacks unpopular healing system change after "reviewing player feedback"

"This change also had knock-on effects elsewhere in the game."

April 9, 2023 Vikki Blake

Promotional art showing one of Dead by Daylight's masked killers, silhouetted against a raging fire in the forest.

News

Blumhouse is turning Dead by Daylight into a movie

James Wan's production house also on board.

March 2, 2023 Matt Wales

Dead by Daylight mobile season one artwork

News

Dead by Daylight to receive overhaul on mobile

Killers on the loose.

Feb. 22, 2023 Ed Nightingale

Dead by Daylight Gallery

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Games from the Dead by Daylight franchise