Everyone’s favourite asymmetric multiplayer horror game, Dead by Daylight, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Following a day-long fan event in Montreal’s Old Port filled with panels, meet-and-greets, art, photo ops, and more, the development team took to the stage to shine a light on the next decade of Dead by Daylight.
Check out the full stream below or read on for a summary of everything they showed.
Chapters and Collaborations
As is tradition for Dead by Daylight, Behaviour Interactive showed off a slew of licensed collaborations and original new content.
Kicking things off was a recap of the game’s upcoming Chapter as horror icon, Jason Voorhees, finally hacks his way into The Fog after a decade of demand. I can only assume he’s finally accepted his own (genuinely brilliant) asymmetric horror multiplayer game is well and truly dead, and now is the time to jump ship. Dead by Daylight: Jason releases June 16 on all platforms.
Next, was the surprise reveal of a Survivor-focused Chapter featuring original character Shane Wiigwaas, the game’s first Indigenous Survivor. Dead by Daylight: The Life Road follows shortly after Jason, releasing June 25 on all platforms.
Also revealed, newly minted horror icon Art the Clown is poised to enter The Entity’s Realm with Dead by Daylight: Terrifier set to release in November of this year. This follows the August release of Dead by Daylight: Chorus of Sin – the game’s first-ever Chapter developed entirely in collaboration with its community.
Looking even further ahead, early announcements for 2027 include a Chapter adaptation of (the rather fun) Dead by Daylight’s first narrative-driven title, The Casting of Frank Stone.
The Future of Dead by Daylight
On the gameplay front, the Dead by Daylight team pulled back the curtains on one of the most ambitious initiatives in the game’s history, detailing fundamental improvements to the game to keep everyone enjoying it for another decade.
Leading the charge is a sweeping visual overhaul targeted for rollout in 2027. Designed to make every Trial more immersive and emotionally impactful, the update will introduce new character model reworks with expanded animation capabilities, alongside realistic facial animations that bring greater expression and nuance to characters. Maps and environments will also receive significant upgrades, including enhanced lighting, shading, and textures, improved Fog and Mist effects, a stronger Entity presence, and, for the first time in Dead by Daylight, dynamic weather systems featuring light rain, heavy rain, and storms. New voice lines for all applicable original characters will additionally be recorded and introduced over time as part of the initiative.
A wider selection of new Game Modes is also being rolled out in the coming years, with early details for 1v1 Mode and Zombie Mode shared. 1v1 sounds terrifying, doesn’t it?
Finally, in a move that will allow its community to create, experiment, and express themselves in the game like never before, Dead by Daylight will be officially opened up to sandboxed modding. The team is currently working on a suite of tools to put in players’ hands sometime next year that will give them everything they need to cook up and share new Maps, Modes, and everything in between.
Knowing how creative the fans of these games can be, I can only imagine the horrors they can create.
The Dead by Daylight Movie
Behaviour Interactive Executive Vice President Stephen Mulrooney provided fans with a highly anticipated update on the upcoming Dead by Daylight film, joined on stage by fellow producer Jason Blum from Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
With a screenplay by Alexandre Aja and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick already completed, the trio unveiled Thordur Palsson as the film’s director and invited him onstage to share his vision for adapting the world of Dead by Daylight for audiences everywhere.
New Collections Revealed
The team also gave a sneak preview of several of the game’s upcoming Collections. The Black Banquet Collection tied to this year’s Anniversary Event that runs from June 25th to July 16th, will offer players some party-appropriate formal wear. The desert-themed Sunflesh Collection will also deliver new looks as part of one of Dead by Daylight’s next Rifts.
Also announced were a new Eddie Legendary Outfit for The Huntress in honor of Iron Maiden’s 50th anniversary, and an Ice Nine Kills Collection inspired by the heavy metal band who thrilled fans at the event with the debut of their new Dead by Daylight-themed track and music video.
Expanding on existing franchises, The Walking Dead Collection will add Glenn and Negan as Legendary Outfits for Rick, while a new Silent Hill Collection Legendary Outfit for Cheryl will transform her into Shimizu Hinako from SILENT HILL f, the psychological horror game by KONAMI.
Finally, answering years of fan requests, one of the most highly anticipated Collections ever is finally coming to The Fog, bringing the beloved characters of Scooby-Doo(!) into Dead by Daylight for the very first time while the newly announced Diablo Collection is set to bring a fresh wave of demonic forces to The Fog this October.
So, even after 10 years, Dead by Daylight is packed with new content, improvements and more reasons to play than ever before.
Dead by Daylight is out now on PC and console.
