Dead by Daylight
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Critic Reviews for Dead by Daylight
It's shocking how much depth Dead By Daylight packs into its systems.
After almost five years, Dead by Daylight has grown into an incredible slasher film simulator, and the best asymmetrical multiplayer game around.
The tension is high in every match, with jump scares and thrilling chases peppering each encounter with the killer
Dead by Daylight has evolved into an unrivalled asymmetrical competitive multiplayer game, and one of the best horror games around.
Dead By Daylight has been around for quite while now and has remained a pretty popular game on both PC and console over the years. It’s a straightforward and repetitive online affair that, if you're lucky enough to be matched with the right bunch of randoms or happen to be playing a custom match with friends, can deliver the goods in terms of frights and tension from time to time. However, it has also always been a pretty clunky affair, a fact which is amplified further here by the noticeable graphical downgrade, laggy menus and the exclusion of a bunch of DLC that we really feel should have been included for the steep asking price.
It lacks polish, but Dead by Daylight is a genuinely tense ode to 80s slasher movies.
Dead by Daylight "dies" a little in this console version which features several translation problems and works as a poor PC port of the original game. Enjoyable if you play with your friends, but it's all.
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A great idea that offers really funny and tense moments. Unfortunately, it's not as well optimised as the PC original and it lacks some more content.
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Dead by Daylight Patch 8.5.0 Is Live With Freddy Rework, Qol, Perk Updates
If you've been following along with our updates on these Dead by Daylight updates, you already know the important stuff in Patch 8.5.0, which has just been released. But lots of bug fixes appear in today's patch notes, and there are a few new things we've spotted as well. As…
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Dead by Daylight Developer Update for PTB Features QoL Changes to Freddy
Today's Developer Update from the Dead by Daylight team is a fairly brief one, but does contain a number of changes to The Nightmare, AKA Freddy Kreuger. The Killer from Elm Street's rework is the focus of this upcoming patch, and he's seen some significant changes to how his powers…
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Dead by Daylight January Dev Update – Freddy Rework, Free Character Trials
Today's Dead by Daylight developer update from BHVR is the first of 2025, and we're ringing in the new year with a couple of new features players are sure to appreciate. Freddy Krueger fans will also be pleased by today's update, includes a major rework for The Nightmare. The new…
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Dead by Daylight PTB Patch 8.5.0 – Freddy Rework Details Revealed
Yesterday's developer update showed off the upcoming changes to licensed Killer Freddy Krueger (AKA The Nightmare), along with some QoL changes to the Deep Wound mechanic, a new Realm Repeat Prevention feature, and free Character Trials during Events. Today, the Public Test Beta patch for 8.5.0 has gone live, and…
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