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Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Dead by Daylight is a horror, multiplayer and survival horror game
developed and published by Behaviour Interactive Inc..
Released on June 14th 2016 is available only on Windows
in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish - Latin America and Turkish.
It has received 797,216 reviews of which 630,223 were positive and 166,993 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Operating System
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4170 or AMD FX-8120
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX11 Compatible GeForce GTX 460 1GB or AMD HD 6850 1GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 50 GB available space
- Sound Card: DX11 compatible
- Additional Notes: With these requirements, it is recommended that the game is played on Low quality settings.
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honestly a really fun, scary and exciting game. already sunk 32 hours into after just a few days. 10/10. (new edit) the stranger things chapter 2 is SO GOOD. vecna is balanced, hes not too strong but not too weak, and he can be mastered - theres levels to ts. also, the character models for dustin, eleven, vecna etc are really well made. the only L from this update is nancy's remodel - but apparently thats because they lost the rights to natalie dyers likeness, so its understandable. anyway, love it. really good update. and for once, theres barely any bugs, and this is only in the ptb which is insane because by that logic, the full release of this chapter will be even better. w bhvr for this. (old edit) i hate this game genuinely only play this game if you want to hate the human species. on a real note though, this game has serious issues. the community is appalling. you will either get toxic killers that slug and tunnel all game and then nod their head like theyre amazing at the game or that theyre funny, or on the other hand you will get toxic survivors that tbag the killer needlessly or sandbag and troll other survivors to ruin their experience. or lastly - you'll get people like the infamous annieilusion_ttv, who are just so oblivious to their own delusion and will do everything except take responsibility for being a complete ass. usually its easy to not let the community of a game influence your opinion on it, but with this game, its so in your face that you cannot avoid it. and the thing i hate most about this community problem, is that when you get in a game with either of these types of people, your natural instinct is to dc. but OHH NO you will get a dc penalty/ban that prevents you from playing. its like the devs DONT want you to play their game. I understand that dc'ing was a big issue in dbd, and so i respect that they made it harder for sore losers to stop disconnecting the second the game isnt going the way they want, but with such a toxic playerbase, its hard not to dc sometimes - especially when faced with players who want to make the experience miserable. next is the problem with balancing. you will either go against killers that have no kind of cooldown or punishment for misusing their abilities - like the ghoul or legion for example that can use their ability to gain distance on survivors and cancel it to get quick and easy downs without any kind of punishment for cancelling their ability, or they will be using the most obnoxious perks that make it impossible for you to make any progress in the match. or you will go against a 4 man swf with perk builds that are solely purposed to making your experience as difficult and as painful as possible. and the problem with both sides is that some people will say the game is killer sided, while some will say its survivor sided. there is a severe divide in the community. my opinion? as someone who plays alot of both killer and survivor, i just say that the game is overall unbalanced on both sides. its just a mess. next is map rng/randomness. some maps will have an insane amount of vaults and pallets that make it torture to play on as killer, but other maps will have dead zones everywhere with no vaults or pallets within a 32m+ range - making it nearly impossible for survivors to have a chance on. then you will get problems with bugs and glitches and cheaters. i will admit that ive not had many issues with cheaters or glitches - so w anticheat i suppose, but the game is still spaghetti coded, and that often leads to odd issues arising when new content is added like new characters and perks. i just hope some major changes can be made to this game, because i play it so much and love it. im addicted, but i also hate 3/4's of the time i spend on it, because the game is unbalanced, the community is abysmal, and players will exploit every unbalanced thing in the game to make your experience as either killer or survivor as miserable as possible. not only that, but i miss the old vibe that the game had. it was darker and grittier, and had a watercolour/oil painting aesthetic that me and alot of people miss. now unfortunately i didnt play dbd back then, i started playing in the fnaf chapter, but ive still played well enough to know where the game's flaws are - and i understand that dbd is a more competitive game now, and if it had the same level of darkness and aesthetics that it did back then, it would be even more of a miserable experience. i think the one of the most annoying things is when you get teammates that blame everything on you when they were throwing the game or doing nothing all game. [EDIT] i felt the need to add this little segment in to complain about how broken killers like the legion are. i just went against a complete failure of society who was using legion to gain distance and block pallets and get easy downs. they were using spirit fury and gen pop perks to waste as much of our time and resources as possible while also making it impossible to progress. THEN, they had the AUDACITY to proxy camp me until i got sacrificed. so, like any normal individual, i scorched them for it in end game chat. their reply was that i was just crying. the nerve to play like that and then say im crying. I HATE THIS GAME. anyway; despite all of this, i still love the game for some reason, i just want it to improve. jamtoes.
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Dead by Daylight feels like deciding to scratch your balls with sandpaper. The first swipe? “Yeah, I can probably handle this, maybe it’s not so bad.” Five minutes later, you realize you’ve accidentally signed up for shame and regret: lifetime subscription with endless hooks, infinite loops, and optional flashlight failures. Just when you think it can’t possibly get worse, you start questioning why you trusted Steve from matchmaking when he said, “I know what I’m doing, just watch me do a 5-gen chance.” Thirty seconds later, he dies instantly, and somehow makes the killer rage harder than you ever could. Right when you think things can’t escalate further, you get hooked and wonder why your teammate thought sprinting straight into the killer and “saving” you from the hook was a tactical maneuver. Then the killer shows up, and your sandpaper scratch session upgrades to industrial grade torture. Hooks glare at you like judgmental exes. It's basically a game where 90% of your time is sprinting for your life, and the other 10% is staring at the sky on a hook, contemplating every single choice that brought you here. You’re sacrificed like a dumb animal with zero concept of self preservation, while mentally reviewing your entire existence. And the community is surprisingly wholesome. They’ll teach you advanced uninstall techniques, and tell me how to just hook yourself in real life beore roasting you and simultaneously explain why you were the reason the killer ranked up. 10/10 would be hooked, stunned, flashlight blinded, and emotionally obliterated again.
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This game has easily the most hilariously pathetic community I’ve ever witnessed. It’s not even close, especially once you play killer, the mask comes off and you see what kind of fragile clowns you're actually dealing with, are you someone with an optimistic points of views towards the world and humanity? Try playing this game, if there's one thing it's amazing at, it's bringing out the worst in us, you might start to hate humanity... I started with survivor. It seemed fine. Pretty normal matches. Gens, chases, some escapes, some deaths. For a while I thought people might be overreacting about the playerbase. Then I switched to killer. Yeah. Nevermind. Suddenly every match was a parade of flashlight clicking, teabagging at every corner, whether it is behind the pallets or at the exit gates, hook dancing like it’s a school talent show, and then the cherry on top: endgame chat filled with angry essays and threats to report me because I committed the ultimate crime of... playing the game. Apparently, there’s a sacred book of rules that everyone must know. You can’t tunnel, you can’t camp, you can’t slug, you can’t hook the same person twice unless you’ve asked for permission and sent a handwritten apology. Forgive me masters! Who am I to defy you? Next time I hook someone, I’ll be sure to light some candles, recite a survivor approved chant, and gently escort them back to a gen so they don’t feel excluded. You hooked someone too efficiently? That’s tunneling. You waited near hook while three of them were circling it like mosquitoes? That’s camping. You left someone on the ground to chase someone else? Slugging. You dared to down someone in under 15 seconds? How dare you. Reported. Winning isn't allowed, or it is allowed but only in spesific conditions, those are? I don't know either, maybe true winning was the friends we made along the way... You so much as exhale at the wrong moment and it's "wow, toxic killer." You blink before they do? Reported for harassment. You play without letting them 99 every gen, unhook their friends, heal under your nose and spam emotes at every pallet? You’ve crossed a moral line, my friend. You’re the problem. The funny thing is none of these are against the rules, the devs have literally said tunneling, camping, slugging or whatever "strategy" used in order to win, is all valid, yet you can see Reddit debates about whether those are fair or not, when I play as a survivor I don't complain about how the killer decides to play, I expect the same thing from survivors too when I play as a killer, but apparently that's asking too much from crybabies with a toddler like maturity. I've been accused of tunneling in matches where I barely remembered who I hooked once. But apparently that guy with four meta perks, voice comms, a flashlight, and 3 resets somehow has the moral high ground. Incredible. And don’t think Reddit is any better. That place is a sandbox for people to roleplay as philosophers. "Here's a 900-word post on why killers shouldn't pressure gens too hard because it makes me anxious." These people are writing ethics dissertations about a horror game while teabagging you at the gate and flashblinding you mid-pickup. The hypocrisy is astonishing. They’ll use every dirty trick in the book, abuse every exploit, spam every mechanic, and then cry about "toxic behavior" because you tunneled their friend after he ran into you three times in a row like it was a social experiment. The only way to survive this game as a killer is to mute chat, never open Reddit, and treat every survivor like they’re one step away from writing a twitlonger about you. This community is toxic, delusional, and self-righteous. Amazing game but the worst community I've ever seen. Everyone playing this game is either a crybaby, a moral crusader, or an amateur philosopher trying to gaslight you into thinking you're evil for using a mechanic they don't like. And on a good day, you get all three in one post-game chat.
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This review is for those considering starting Dead by Daylight. First things first: the game’s concept is excellent for casual players. It’s constantly updated, with new content every few weeks. You can treat it as a quick pick-up-and-play experience, or sink thousands of hours into it - it’s as shallow or as addictive as your preferences allow. That said, the learning curve is steep. While the core gameplay is simple and there aren't many interactable elements, the depth comes from its variety. As of writing this, there are over 40 killers and 127 killer perks, which means learning dozens of playstyles and counterplay strategies. On the flip side, there are 46 survivors with around 150 perks. Again, lots of combinations to experiment with or master. Most perks can be unlocked through play or purchase. But don’t expect a quick grind. Even after 1000 hours, you may not unlock everything. Some perks are also locked behind paid DLCs(not a complaint, just a fact). Here’s the twist: despite the wide variety, once you climb the matchmaking ranks, you'll notice a pattern. Only a few killers dominate the meta, and only a handful of survivor perks are commonly used. And the community? It’s the full internet zoo. You’ll meet incredibly kind, wholesome players—but they’re the minority. Most matches involve someone sandbagging, throwing the game, or verbally melting down over a single mistake. You’ll see people building their real-life identities around this game. You’ll see how deeply some crave digital victory. You’ll see content creators whose "amazing" fans may harass you. You'll see that some players seem to log in purely to annoy others. And yes, you’ll see both blatant and subtle cheaters—and it might take BHVR a while to act. But despite all of this… I still play it. Is it worth it? I don't know.
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Used to play this game for fun. Now I mainly play it because I hate myself and I deserve the suffering :)
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Dead by Daylight is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.
Dead by Daylight is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 7.99€ on Steam.
Dead by Daylight received 630,223 positive votes out of a total of 797,216 achieving a rating of 7.86.
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Dead by Daylight was developed and published by Behaviour Interactive Inc..
Dead by Daylight is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Dead by Daylight is not playable on MacOS.
Dead by Daylight is not playable on Linux.
Dead by Daylight is a multi-player game.
Dead by Daylight features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
There are 37 DLCs available for Dead by Daylight. Explore additional content available for Dead by Daylight on Steam.
Dead by Daylight does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Dead by Daylight supports Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet and Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Dead by Daylight is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
44,886
Developer
Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Publisher
Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Release
14 Jun 2016
Platforms
Remote Play
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