Dead by Daylight is an asymmetric survival horror game developed by Behaviour Interactive. Dead by Daylight was released on the Microsoft Windows operating system in June 2016, released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One home consoles in June 2017 and is scheduled for release on the Nintendo Switch in Fall 2019. The game is played exclusively as a one versus four online multiplayer where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, trying to escape the Killer and avoid being caught and sacrificed to the Entity.
Along a handful of original characters, the game also includes downloadable characters from famous horror franchises Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw, and Evil Dead.
As of January 1, 2018, Behaviour Interactive became the game's publisher, acquiring publishing rights from Starbreeze Studios.
Gameplay
A group of up to four Survivors must elude one Killer. The Survivors' perspectives are third- person, while the Killer's perspective is first- person.
Survivors
Players assume the role of one of the 17 Survivors, Dwight Fairfield, Meg Thomas, Claudette Morel, Jake Park, Nea Karlsson, Laurie Strode, William 'Bill' Overbeck, Ace Visconti, Feng Min, David King, Quentin Smith, David Tapp, Kate Denson, Adam Francis, Jeff Johansen, Jane Romero or Ash Williams. The goal of the Survivors is to escape the enclosed area, which can be done in one of two ways: either by repairing a certain number of disabled Generators (always equal to the number of Survivors that spawned into the trial plus the Killer) to provide power to the switch boxes of two Exit Gates leading out of the trial grounds; or by escaping through the Hatch. the hatch opens only when there is only one Survivor remaining in the trial.
