Dead by Daylight

I really enjoyed playing this game, but...
The devs constantly kill the fun in the game. Survivors can still give up on the hook. "Burden" is a perk for some reason, not a game mechanic. So you have to use it in your games, like all the anti-tunnel perks, to not tilt for obvious reasons. So you can't play with other perks because there are only 4 perk slots. So there is no argument that they are adding all this to the game to fix this. No. You have to sacrifice your fun in perks to have quality of life in the game. The devs look at the numbers and don't really listen to the people who are actually playing their game. So they think solo queue is okay. But in reality it is a PAIN. This is why people stop playing your game. Because there is almost nothing you can fix to make it balanced and FUN. Who cares what new perks you bring if all that matters is gens (the main goal of the game) and chases. You need to design your game around BUILDS. So it will be fun to theory craft in the game. But you can't really think about builds because your game designer doesn't play the game! And if players find interesting and fun builds - you nerf them! That's why you kill the fun!
For example: I found a build with dh-saboteur-mom-breakout. It was so fun to run under the hook and not get hit by the killer, and then you had 0.5 seconds to break the hook and use dh. Then I made a guide on your forum, and a month or two later you nerfed the animations, and then dh, so it became impossible! And that's just one example!
Do something about it! Jesus

Really one of my favourite game
always love the spirit of the game
except bugs still not fixed in the game and the facecamp/ tunnel killer.
You can't find a game with this gameplay ( 2v4) and 1 person view killer
As a big fan of horror movies, i also love the collab with franchises and also as a Metalhead i also like the
collaboration with Metal band ( Iron Maiden) i wish there were more.
I really like the events <3
I love this game and this community. <3

More bugs than features, some of the community is very toxic, but I keep playing anyway. I think it's the Stockholm syndrome.

at the end of the day whenever i boot off this game in a blind rage, i always come back. perhaps it's love, perhaps it's unrestrained addiction. perhaps it's the vast amounts of money i've spent into the shitty fucking outfits and the maybe 7 good ones. maybe it's the 3 really good rounds out of 72. maybe it's the 9 and 11 hour play sessions with 12 different people. maybe it's the 1,142 hours i've plugged into this. maybe i want this. maybe i don't.

whatever it is, it's a real connection. like a father and a son you kind of don't like. but, like the man you are, you have to deal with it. pick it up from soccer practice, go to applebee's after its entire team just got wiped the fuck out. there's something here. i'm not quite sure what it is, though.

this game is genuinely horrible, out of touch devs, horrible learning curve for new players and the newly stated 2v8 mode is riddled with exploits, horrible computer (bot) opponent/team mates and takes almost half an hour to find a match for the killer role. Why do i play this garbage still. I'd labor of love it if these developers would get a grip.

I like the lore in this game and that you can play as various killers from different horror movies. I DO NOT LIKE THAT the skins and other dlc like levels need to be purchased. I have an addictive personality and I end up spending too much money and time on these things. There are a few toxic players you will run into just don't read the chat for your sanity.

Half the time you play this game you'll be slugged out and humped, the other half you'll be spending blood points because they don't have a way to quick spend them after 8.5 years. Its a horrible game but its as addictive as crack cocaine. Its like that ex that treats you badly but you go back and hope they've changed. They haven't. They're somehow worse, but you forgive them every time because you don't love yourself enough to know when to quit. 1/10 game, would recommend

This is the game that people hate to love.

The gameplay devs are clearly the most deadweight people at Behavior. The visuals are great, the art direction has been wonderfully balanced between spooky and not too hard on the eyes, the sound design is really helpful, the lore is interesting, the marketing goes really well, whoever's getting licenses is doing a phenomenal job, and overall there's a lot of people doing great work on this game. There's also lots of cosmetic options in simple categories and the season pass has interesting rewards even in the free path.

Unfortunately then you have whoever's in charge of actually designing the gameplay elements, who I assume is led by a liberal arts major dropout. They intentionally keep things poorly balanced, keeping some killers just indefinitely weak, perks weak, different maps lopsided to favor survivors or killers, the experience as a frustration simulator, make nonsensical nerfs, have almost no transparency, no protection against hackers, exploitable mechanics, no plans to retroactively improve older killers or their Mori (execution moves), challenges that actively encourage throwing matches, predatory in-game micro-transactions where sales cost more than just buying chapters on steam, a janky leveling system that's as frustrating as the gameplay, slow progression, a mobile version that was an improvement over the standard version you can buy here but they'll never implement any of the liked features from that, and the sad part is that it's in its currently best state in years according to veteran players.

Buy it if you don't mind suffering for something that is, at its core, a really fun concept. I keep playing it despite how frustrating it is. I keep spending money on it despite the developers not fixing anything until it becomes their problem.

It's a really abusive relationship.

the game is a buggy mess. every update its expected to have glitches and game breaking bugs which make it virtually unplayable. half of the time the prompt to drop pallets isn't even available for no reason at all. you can't play survivor unless you have a 4 stack who all know what they're doing because the game is severely killer sided and they have 0 intention in balancing it out. If you play solo, queue killer - although it becomes repetitive and boring and doesn't really have much charm to it/loses its charm very very quickly. the chances of winning solo queue survivor is not likely at all. there a LOT of things they could do to balance the game but it will never happen. It's a shame because the game would be very fun with correct programming and a few tweaks to the play style to make a more fair game.

The Good:

-Lots of killers from classic horror films.
-Lots of perks and an enjoyable game when people play fair.
-Lots of chapters released.

The Bad:

1) Matchmaking is horrible.
2) Lots of cheaters and exploits (both survivors and killers). Here are some:

>End game collapse occurs (you are a killer) and survivor (last one) does not die when the timer hits zero keeping you locked in the game endlessly unless you exit the game and get penalized (you are held hostage).

>Survivors do not die once hooked for the 3rd time and fall off the hook (basically an immortal survivor).

3) Developers don't seem to care about people being able to cheat.

4) Long hours needed to grind to unlock survivors, killers, and perks.

5) Play and know that no matter how good you are, you will be matched with poorly skilled players.

6) You solo game in the hopes that you will be matched with players that will match your skill level and not let you die on the hook, not do generators, and hope they are not focused solely on unhooking fellow survivors.

This game.... trash. Complete trash. I play it only for the friends who play it. Otherwise id happily inject terminal brain cancer into my own brain if it would mean the destruction of this game. There no skill, there no trying, theres no reason to play. The game creators encourage the killers to cheat, and most of them do. Survivors are no better because everyone will sacrifice you on first hook so they can get ahead in rankings. Its nothing but a giant pissing match between losers with no better way to spend their time other then to be toxic and rage at everything in their way. Death threats, racism, sexism, pretty much every kind of hateful bull that one game could have in it. At the end of the day, your better to spend your money on a good quality game that doesnt run off of bugs and glitches. (because the whole games a cash grab, and they havent done a bug fix in 5 years. Smashing your balls or breasts in a waffle makers would be more productive then wasting money on this garbage. For the love of your own sanity NEVER BUY THIS GAME!!! If you do, your only gonna regret all the money you spent just to get stomped out by virgins who dont know what the sun is.

Solo Q is unplayable, Killers are over-tuned thanks to behavior nerfing every map/Loops and buffing Every Killer just about. I've been playing since 2016 and the amount of tunneling and camping is still the same just about. Killers are still swinging through pallets and windows. Blood lust is still in the game despite all the nerfs to maps. If you want to enjoy this game just go play a killer and tunnel people out with a shaman build or a slowdown build and you'll win majority of your matches. Today was my last day playing. So many other games out there worth playing.

Despite its flaws, Dead by Daylight is one of those games I seriously cannot put down. I love it a lot, and have dedicated so much of my time to it via gameplay and community outside of it. I have made great friendships from DBD, and really feel a sense of belonging in the world of wacky and wild horror. Though the gameplay loop has never changed from a Killer chasing a Survivor struggling to repair generators, I enjoy its repeat nature and predictability alongside great music, diverse characters, and memorable moments.

I look forward to seeing the future of this game and always hope to watch it grow into a healthier and happier state for everyone to enjoy.

I hope to see you in the Fog too!

Ever since they got rid of ranking system its gone downhill.

There's a reason that this game has been losing players and killers are finding they have really long queue times. The devs fix for that, is to include bots, not fix the actual issues and reasons survivors are dropping like fly's.

I'm not upset that this game is unbalanced, it's an asymmetrical horror, I don't expect it to be completely balanced. I am upset that the devs seem to care more about killer complaints than survivor complaints. Killers deadzone themselves by hooking survivors right next to each other, complain and they get re-spawning hooks. Survivors don't get re-spawning pallets or the ability to repair pallets. The amount of matches I've had where a survivor has dropped every pallet early game and deadzoned other survivors is far too many. Most of the survivor buffs are more nerf than buff ex. the new wake up "buff" is actually a nerf as wake up is more often used by solo players and this "buff" punishes players by making it weak when you need it the most. I could honestly list a hundred more.
Killers get buffs and get more powerful. Survivors get "buffs" and get punished for not only playing the game with 3 other friends in discord calls.

Solo queue is a toxic nightmare.
I've been left to die on first hook multiple times. I've had survivors spam fake getting me off hook to the point where the killer had to step in (Onryo I love you)
It's not about an accidental pallet drop or dcing because you'd rather take a penalty than play slug fest.
It's about survivors who would rather do everything other than objectives. Don't care about their teammates in a game that requires you to work together. Kill themselves on first hook on purpose, leaving their 3 teammates to do 5 gens which is almost impossible.
And killers who will do anything for a 4k except actually play the game how it should be played.

For a game that requires a full team with coms to actually feel playable, there are no ways for survivors to communicate except pointing and waving if you are not all in a discord call. There's no way to let your solo queue teammates know that you're camping meter is filling up or where you're working on a gen or where the killer is or actually communicate.
Before anyone wants to argue I'm clearly a survivor main, I also play killer. You know what I don't do? Camp, Tunnel and Slug for a 4k.
This isn't about winning, I'm happy to take an L when it's deserved, but when I'm spending the whole survivor match playing mending simulator with solo teammates who are hiding in every corner waiting for hatch at 4 gens, it's just not fun.
Neither is playing bleed out simulator for two minutes, which unbreakable doesn't fix because it's a once up and the alternative is no mither which sucks.
Their anti-camping system doesn't work. Solo teammates often interrupt the bar going up, the killer will slug and leave the survivor there so the anti-camp meter is useless.
Everything is considered a "strategy" as killer. Camping in end-game. Slugging. Tunneling players off hook.
You have one survivor who uses perks the way that their meant to and its "abusing in-game mechanics" and more often than not, the perk gets nerfed.

I have been recommending DBD for years and honestly I can say that I won't be recommending it anymore. If I wanted to play a game and get frustrated about pings in the 200's with hit boxes that make no sense, I don't know any other game I could swap to instead.
to quote a friend I'm usually queued up with "I can't vouch for the game. At this point even being free wouldn't be worth it. Especially for solo queue as if it wasn't hard enough."

Unplayable game. Eventually once you play enough, your hidden MMR (matchmaking ranking) will make the game as unenjoyable as possible. Your teammates on survivor will always be bad, the killer will always be good, and you will always die. And since they measure your MMR based on *escapes* and not actual skill or score in your matches, dying means your teammates will be even worse next game, and the killers will likely stomp you even harder, since playing a 1v1 every match is impossible.

And that's just survivor! The same thing happens on killer, where your MMR is based only on kills, and is different for each killer. If I play Leatherface I will always get a 4-man team running the best perks all using communication to make it impossible for me to prolong the match for longer than 5 minutes. But if I go and play a killer I never play like The Wraith, I end up getting newer survivors all solo queuing, leaving them standing zero chance.

Until they fix how miserable the matchmaking is, where you can't play survivor without your whole team dying in the first 3 minutes, and you can't play the killer you want because then you have to go against the teammates you should be getting on survivor, I cannot recommend this game in good faith. Which is sad, because I used to absolutely LOVE this game, its been all I've played this year. But just know if you buy it today, the majority of people playing survivor you will get on your team will likely just give up and die because they know they can't win. And if you play killer? Good luck, the first 10 hours of playing the same killer will be a cake walk, and then you'll never be able to have fun playing them ever again.

This game is absolutely going downhill lately and I can't recommend it for anyone.
I have around 2k hours on epic and 550h on steam so here is my review.

Here are some things that I want to point:

> Lack of bug fixing;
> Lots of break gaming bugs that are in the game for almost 2y and bhvr still refuses to fix;
> BHVR recently scammed players with region locked skins (you buy then, can't use them, your money is gone, no refund);
> Probably the most toxic community I've ever seen, worse than dota, lol, cs, rust etc;
> Bad design choices over and over and over again;
> The game relies a LOT into RNG;
> Balance of the game relies in a few perks, there's hundreds of different perks but 90% is completely useless;
> Too much grind and almost no reward, BP gains with the current prestige system is absolutely horrendous;
> Lots of streamers stopping playing the game, you can see them playing it for the sake of $$$ otherwise they wouldn't even attempt opening it;
> BHVR claims to be "labor of love" when their decisions obviously shows who they are ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$);
> BHVR needs 1y-2y to implement even the smallest changes and community goes wild like bhvr is a god or some entity.

If you want to have a good time, play anything else but this game.

I'd like to say I recommend the game, but at this time I just can't I sunk over 1200hrs on PS4 when the game first came out to consoles with my buddy and we'd play almost everyday because of how fun it is. Now? the game has been pigeon holed into what it is because of content creators and how they feel about the game. You now have killers that needed work becoming a problem in mid to low level play for returning players. I can't recommend this game to new friends when their first game is a pig player who checked their hours, singled them out and tunneled them to death.

How is this supposed to feel rewarding for any new player? Do you expect them to stay after games like this?

Locking perks that are incredibly strong and almost necessary behind a paywall is incredibly anti-consumer. They do not care about it whatsoever. Go look into how many perks are in the game versus how many are available when you first get the game, it's laughable! $400 CAD (including the cosmetic packs on steam) so they can have all the perks? Seriously?

Between the greed and the balance, which abuse do you prefer? It's a shame to see BHVR become a shell of it's former self, from region locking skins to allowing hackers to run rampant, it's just sad. I can't recommend this game anymore.

I'll take my clown medals and funny tags now, thanks guys.

"Once a Thrilling Horror Game, Now a Stress Simulator"

Dead by Daylight used to be a game where you could dive in and enjoy a mix of strategy, suspense and thrilling gameplay whether as a killer hunting survivors or as a survivor trying to outwit the killer. But now? It's more frustration than fun.

As a Killer
Playing as a killer is supposed to feel empowering, but instead, you're often left feeling like a babysitter dealing with a bully squad. Survivors can coordinate so well that it’s impossible to keep up if you're not on their level. Flashlight saves, body blocking, pre-dropping pallets, tea-bagging, it feels like a playground for survivors who know the game inside out. Meanwhile, the pressure to get a 4K every match is so high that you're constantly fighting sweaty survivors who know all the best spots and have the perfect builds.

And let’s not forget matchmaking. Why am I, as a casual killer, being thrown into matches against squads of survivors with 1,000+ hours each? It’s not even close to fair. There's no real system to separate experienced players from new ones, so if you’re not already great at the game, good luck trying to improve without getting stomped over and over again.

As a Survivor
If you’re thinking, “Well, at least survivor gameplay must be more chill, right?” Nope. Not at all. Every game feels like a sweaty tournament. You either face killers that seem to have played the game since day one or ones who camp and tunnel just to secure a single kill. The fun of sneaking around, working on gens, and clutching an escape is replaced with constant stress and sweaty gameplay.

And again, matchmaking makes no sense. One game you’ll have brand-new players on your team who don’t know what they’re doing, and the next, you’re up against a killer that downs everyone in seconds. It’s chaos, and not the fun kind.

Matchmaking is the Root of the Problem
The lack of a proper skill-based matchmaking system ruins the game for both sides. Newer players get stomped, while veterans complain about having no challenge. Without a system that pairs people of similar skill levels, every match feels like a coin toss, either a sweat fest or a completely one-sided stomp.

Where’s the Fun?
Dead by Daylight was meant to be a game of strategy, unpredictability and a bit of horror. Now it feels like an endless grind of frustration, made worse by the fact that the community can be so toxic. What’s the point of playing if every match feels like a competition to out-sweat the other side?

I miss the days when Dead by Daylight was fun. Until the devs fix matchmaking, address bully squads and create a more balanced experience for casual players, I can’t recommend this game anymore.

Final Verdict:

Pros: Great concept, unique gameplay, and cool cosmetics.
Cons: Sweaty gameplay, toxic community, no fair matchmaking, and way too much frustration for something that’s supposed to be fun.
Rating: 4/10 (because I still hold onto hope that it can be fixed).

This has been my main game sense release. It was nice because you can watch a video while playing, and that's great but that also shows how boring the game has gotten. Its fun when theres different game modes to distract you from tunneling and t-bagging survivors but even if you mask shit, its still shit. I guess its enjoyable if you get matched with chill people but 9/10 they're toxic and the killers prob gonna tunnel you. I used to recommend this game but feel embarrassed to recommend or even say i play this cows manure of a game. Just sucks having 1,800 hours on this account, and another 500 on my Xbox. I almost feel like i have to play to the end with all the money/time spent. Its also discouraging when supposed "updates" and "bug fixes" come out yet the players are still shit and killers are too OP.

Over 1000+ hours on this game i can actually say that most of my time on this game have been on the ground thanks to your knock out slugging builds to getting tunnelled by ttv streamers to my game taking forever to load now courtesy of the "Doomed Course" dlc and so many other amazing things that i can't say on a review. To whoever may want to try this game out for the first time.........Don't also don't forget about packet loss hi ping all that amazing stuff. The only good quality about this game is when i uninstall it or alt F4 :)

Despite me being gifted this game, it's more of a curse. I have spent an ungodly amount of money keeping up with the game over the past 5 years now and all I can say is that it's gotten worse every year. Never mind bad business practice, costly cosmetics/battlepasses, and a shoddy developer company, Dead by Daylight as a game has 10 flaws for every thing they get right. It is pay to win, poorly balanced, and matchmaking is in the bin. On top of that, the players inside of the game have no sense for good fun anymore. Content creators and "fog whisperers" have carried this game for years and it's finally hemorrhaging. If you are looking for a fun, scary game to play with friends, you should not pick this up, period.

This is a really good game to play with friends! I still learning the mecanism of the game and it seems really cool and fun. Absolute 10/10

I know, I have played this game quite a lot already and spent multiple hundred Euros for cosmetics and DLC's. It is addictive and it can be fun too. Yet, I can't see myself giving this game a good review ever. BHVR is a really bad company, they don't do anything for the games health, they only care about money and give a shit about their players. This game is pay-to-win and costs money on top (for buying it in the first place). Endless game breaking bugs are to be expected with every "update", causing frustration and losing matches. The community is the literal worst I have ever personally come across (I have never touched LOL), Survivors calling you out for winning and having fun. Killers being mad about them losing. This is an endless cycle which causes even more toxicity and bad sportsman like behaviour in games, the endgame chat and on your very steam profile (check my steam comments for proof). Besides of that, the game is a literal spaghetti code, just look it up on google. For everyone thinking about buying this game or spending any additional money on it, don't.

This game has to many problems to make it recommandabele for new players. You are going to spend the first couple of 100 hours getting absolutely destroyed. You could fill a college degree with the amount of esotheric knowledge within Dead by Daylight, that the game does not explain any of. You are going to be playing against people who have condensed this game down into a science.

If you play as a survivor you will have to learn how every one of the 38 killers work, some much more complex with basically several killers worth of mechanics into one. On top of that some 170 different perks of which they could be running any 4. And finally up to 2 different add-ons that can fundamentally alter how a killer works.
There are some 200 perks you could get as a survivor that you also need to learn and understand, of course you dont get any of these at the start. It'll be several hundred hours before you even have access to most of the good ones.
Learning to do chases and all the intricate mechanics. Truth is, you're going to get dunked on for the first several hundred hours before things start to click.

If you're killer the game is a lot easier because solo-queue is very killer sided, but you're still going to spend hundreds of hours just to get some perks. And you will occasionally go up against a Survive With Friends (SWF), that is basically a premade group, and they absolutely clown on you. As the lack of information which works heavily in favour of a killer against a solo-queue team (there is no ingame voice chat, or even text chat) is suddenly denied.

Why would that happend? Because Dead by Daylight has some of, if not the, worst matchmaking i have ever witnessed in a multiplayer game. It will happily put very new players with just a couple dozen or maybe 100 or so hours against players with well over 2000 or even 6000 hours. Do not be fooled by claims that it is skillbased matchmaking, as the outcomes go exactly as you would expect when some 120hour killer tries to catch a 6000 hour survivor. Or some 60 hour survivor who needs to try and shake a 2000 hour killer.

To compound further, the netcode is terrible. I've played games that can to a pretty good degree track even individual bullets in games with dozens of players. Dead by Daylight cannot even accurately track entire player entities and there are at most 5. Even the slightest bit of latency, just 100ms can drastically throw off the game.
On top of that there is such a huge array of bugs, that in such a tight game can make a big impact. Yet these bug, as simple as a sound not properly playing, can go months or even years without ever getting fixed.

Lastly the community certainly leaves much to be desired. Unsportsmanlike behavior, trolling, having teammates intentionally kill themselves, or outright leaving are very common occurances and you will almost certainly encounter one or several of these acts in every game you play.

Also we cannot ignore that the game is certainly to a degree pay-to-win as you need to buy survivors/killers in order to get access to their perks. Which at times can be absolutely overpowered or meta that everyone runs out. It's not essential to get good at the game, as some very good perks are available in the base game. However with perks making up essentially most of your 'power' as a survivor (and also to a large degree as killer), not having access to some puts you at a clear disadvantage.

If despite this you still really want to play an asymetrical multiplayer game that is essentially a game of tag, with or against cool monsters. Experience the high when you lose a killer in a chase, or outplay a survivor and get that kill, then i dont believe there is really anything better on the market right now. And it does get better after the first 200 - 300 hours. I just cannot recommend a game that requires such a massive time investment before it becomes 'good', ss the community will generally regard anyone with less than 500-1000 hours as new.

Also, like most games, it gets more fun with friends.

The game is terrible. The matchmaking system is not balanced. Playing as a survivor encounters only poor survivors, but when playing as a murderer, you encounter only good survivors.

I'm not sure why I even play the events if no one wants to participate in the activity. Every match is a tournament, and if you don't run meta you die in 2 minutes. It's an exhausting game and I finally uninstalled it before writing this.

This game is not worth downloading and diving into in 2025.

The devs are extremely lucky they have an existing fan base that is loyal - and these same fans themselves admit it is more like Stockholm syndrome than genuine fun.

Similarly to how Marvel Rivals showed gamers that Overwatch was taking advantage of their playerbase with lackluster updates and content, I truly believe the sole reason this game has managed to stay relevant is a lack of competition in the asymmetrical horror space.

The licensing they've managed to slowly acquire over the years is what has kept them alive (just look at the popularity of anything Resident Evil related)

The toxicity is at an all time high - this may sound like nothing new to long-time players, but that doesn't make it any less true or relevant.

No matter how vile someone treats you in this game, they always act like (and believe) it is justified.

After almost 9 years the core of this game still ONLY revolves around completing generators to escape? So tedious, where is the evolution? Sprinkling in a barely different and limited-time game-mode once a quarter does. not. count.

If you haven't played this game literally just don't. Save yourself the from the toxicity of potential school shooters taking out their anger in this game and keep scrolling.

The game hasn't changed in years and even with the limited time modes I couldn't be bothered to do generators for 30 minutes. They need to really become a bit more innovative and add new aspects to this game. The only thing keeping it alive is the licencing of already established horror franchises.

Dead by Daylight, where teamwork makes the dream work, but also where your teammates might accidentally lead the killer straight to you because they panicked and ran into a tree.
One moment, you’re sneaking around fixing generators, feeling like a stealthy ninja. The next, you’re screaming and running for your life because the killer spotted you—and oops, you tripped over a pallet!
The teamwork, the clutch saves, and the pure chaos of hiding in a bush while your heart races make every match unforgettable. It’s scary, silly, and so much fun.

10/10 would get left behind by my teammates and still love them for it!

Game is in the WORST state its ever been in. It hasn't been good since the flashlight nerfs. The Devs don't actually know what balance is. If you have a killer who has insane movement speed like Blight, Billy, Oni, Chucky, Nurse. You'd expect that to come with a downside. But it doesn't. These killers have extremely low cool-downs to their mobility abilities. They have zero turn rate hindrance. If the devs actually cared they would work on actually balancing the abilities of killers. They continue to give killers perks that give them insane vault speeds too which stops any fun chases. I only play this game for the off chance I actually run into a killer who prefers to chase without any gimmicks and m1's me vs spamming their op as shit powers. Most of the killers move speeds are too fast now, the maps have gotten smaller. They were going to "address" the 3 genning but with smaller maps its still happening. They got rid of counters like flashlights against wraith and hag. Buffed hag so she can actually outrun you. I get people don't like playing some killers but how about innovate on their abilities. I will give them that their last few killer releases have been so much fun to play against like Drac, Veccna, Hound master, but then they buff them to the point where you don't even want to get a game with them. Bots are pointless when they were actually decent if people dced, they also dont let go on hook so killers have more than enough time to get you before hatch. Theres just so much wrong with it and I hate that I still have this stupid addiction to the chase when I occasionally find a killer who isnt a piece of work.

OH YEAH and the Devs banned me from the patch notes discussion because they didn't like my opinion and I said we should fire them and get new people in. So they can kick rocks.

It is never acceptable to scam your patrons out of money. This is their mistake and they should own it. Simple as that.

I would discourage new players from buying this game. Tl;dr is that it's poorly balanced, has terrible monetization practices, incredibly high time investments, and a dev team that doesn't give a shit aside from the amount of skins they can pump out to keep horny people opening their wallets to buy the 27th barefoot female survivor skin this year.

Gameplay and Balancing

Monetization

Controversy

Conclusion

really poor communication with their own playerbase, region locked skins, countless bugs... these devs don't gaf at all lmao

This game has real potential, it is fun and has overall improved over the years.

However, the Devs every so often show how out of touch with the playerbase they really are - from taking comical amounts of time to implement basic QoL changes to downright SCAMMING a player out of a bunch of money (Their store glitched and allowed him to buy a region-locked skin, then BHVR proceeded to deny him a refund or any compensation).

DbD is f*cking great, but the developers are every so often mute, deaf or downright ignorant to the needs of the community.


If they at least fix the recent scam scandal, i may change this review.

EDIT: They did fix the region-lock situation! Shame it took so much backlash to do it, but they did fix it.

BHVR lets its players buy region-locked cosmetics, but won't let you play with the skin or refund you. They are scamming the player base. I will change my review to positive if they correct this error.

Currently do not recommend this game! Despite several improvements that have been made on the developer's end, the company still seems far more preoccupied with pushing out a stream of purely cosmetic content and 4-5 chapters of new content a year- leading to an unfortunate scenario where existing problems that currently lurk persistently within are either ignored or made worse with the added perks or killers! Unlike other games that seek to take a period of time to focus entirely on balancing out existing content, Dead by Daylight has a comparatively tiny trickling of fixes to long staying issues in its game, due to the company seemingly exhausting its resources to work on 4 chapters (new killer powers, killer/survivor perks, maps, cosmetics, etc) at any given time without giving enough time to rectify existing design flaws or even seemingly obvious design flaws in the upcoming content. Recent killers and perks have been released with a myriad of bugs that remain in the game for months, not to mention entirely unhealthy and problematic metas on both ends of the playerbase that stay unchanged for months to years.

In addition to long term issues such as this, it also seems that the company is making entirely unreasonable decisions in terms of how to handle bugs involving its in-game store and currency as of late, refusing to compensate players for cosmetics that were unintentionally left in the store of players in countries that the cosmetics were not intended to be purchased in. It is completely unacceptable and anti-consumer of a company to handle the issue in this way, and incredibly hypocritical of a game developer that begged its playerbase to nominate them for the Labor of Love award. This company is certainly improving in some areas, but ultimately the game development seems to be habitually unable to handle treating its community with respect or care. I really want to recommend this game to people but cannot due to the current state of its developer- it is a miracle that a company this incompetent was able to gain success with this game in the first place, but even moreso that it continues to stay afloat after years of poor care into its main moneymaker. Do better!!!

Many Chinese players have already paid for the Junji Ito Collection Skin series, but you have blocked Chinese players' rights to use it. You can choose to block it, but you must refund the money! Your choice has really disappointed and sickened the Chinese players who have always supported your games....

They've scammed people with the release of the new skin set, and they refuse to refund the players who could "buy" them cause of a bug screw this company

Game is probably in the worst state of all time right now: Updates have become so bad in the last months, they are basically destroying all fun perks for survivor and killer and it's getting more and more killer sided with every patch. We only get max. 3 new maps in 1 year and most of them are poorly designed and buggy. The winter event mode got snowmans, that bodyblock you in chase by standing in the door frame and the devs decide to just kill switch the new released killer in event mode (without giving players a fix until event is over). They publish an extremly bugged chapter 1 month before christmas, just to make more money. You mostly get solo q mates, that do anything but gens and killers are tunneling and slugging at any time. Well done bhvr.. -"Pretty good job so far"

BHVR has been scamming players by having skins region locked but still having them available for purchase in those regions, and then refusing to give players refunds when they can't use said skins. Do not give them any money.

This linkage is very disappointing to me.I first played this game in 2016.at that time.I seriously say that I have an unprecedented appreciation of this game.But this linkage made me realize the true face of this game.Why do you treat us players like this?What's the use of your apology statement?When can people who disturb the game order make management measures?I bought this game for every account.Many people who started playing with me have abandoned the pit.You really let me down.No one will accept your apology.Makes me sick.

A recent cosmetic collection is region locked in certain countries, but still allow it to be purchased in those regions without giving the cosmetics. There is NO transparency about it being region locked, and people who fall victim to this have been given zero reimbursement.

If this isn't a scummy practice then I don't know what it.

I am always working on supplying positive reviews for all game makers,but it hasn't always worked out wel。Unfortunately,positive reviews are not available in some particular area for DBD。Deeply sorry for the following inconvenience and disturbance.

I like this game but it seems the people behind it are being scummy, but overall I really enjoy the game. The problems people have brought up I discovered recently which sucks but doesn't hurt my overall fondness of the game just wish the dev team behind get their act together.

Even if they refund the auric cells those people lost, I still don't recommend this game. The fact that Behavior even refused the refunds in the first place shows where their priorities are.

With that out of the way, here is a list of the game's issues, some of which it has had for years.
The meta of the game has remained almost unchanged, multiple bugs are still unfixed, skill expression removed from survivors as well as some killers, STILL can't see your teammate's perks despite it being implemented in dbd mobile, lazy rework design, laughably bad tutorial, skill based matchmaking in a non-competitive game, gens are ungodly boring to do, slugging is still boring to go against despite it being the proper way to play some killers, "just bring this perk if you don't like it" is not a substitute for balancing, many killers relying on the same 50/50 mind games with slightly different hitboxes, killing yourself on the hook is essentially a free rage quit that leaves your team completely fucked, overall bad animation quality, Wraith's mori, killers without a chase power are C+ at best, the bloodweb (which is the game's main progression system) still takes way too long to level, meta defining perks being on licensed characters that you can't earn in-game, some (licensed) survivors are literally pay to win as they are much quieter than others, pay to win huntress skin, "The Twins Rework Incident" shows that the devs have absolutely no idea how their game works, certain killers have iridescent addons that are worse than their brown ones, Tombstone is still in the game, how the fuck did the Hound Master even make it to PTB in that state, flashlights are annoying as hell for bad killers and completely useless on good killers, on some maps you can get caught on invisible hitboxes, can't derank anymore so reaching iridescent means pretty much nothing, in almost every situation grouping up as survivor is basically trolling since doing 3 solo gens or self healing with a medkit is much more efficient than grouping up, swf (4 stack survivor groups) are still way stronger than solo queue survivors making the solo experience dreadful, stealth killers are almost unplayable on most maps, the killer known as Trickster, some maps have up to 5 variations of them making it hard for new players to learn, you either take bloodpoint offerings or map offerings everything else is a joke, the anti camp meter doesn't stop camping so why is it even in the game, basement trapper, dbd mobile had higher quality skins, tome challenges that make you go out of your way to do useless objectives that just troll your team, the game is balanced around the top gen regression perks making the killer new player experience horrible, I didn't forget about the Pinhead NFT, the devs say a bug is fixed when it actually isn't, "The Game" aka Gideon Meat Plant aka god pallet city, if you get off of a gen at the same time a skill check happens the gen will still blows up, if two survivors decide to hide all game then have fun looking for them for the 1 hour it takes for the server to close, If you play on a TV that has some glare on it Dredge's nightfall makes it actually impossible to see anything, the production quality for new content has gone up which is good but it makes all of the older content look so out of place.

Moral of the story, someone get these devs a labor of love award :D

In terms of the developers of this game and their customer service they are...

SCAMMERS. Don't buy this game. Why and how you may ask?

Behaviour Interactive allows you to waste ACTUAL money on their FAKE in game currency on skins that aren't available in your region, the game will then take your skins that are not allowed for that region as well as your money.

Behaviour Interactive needs to refund the purchases of those in countries who purchased skins they shouldn't have been able to purchase due to a glitch and won't compensate them either with their in game currency or their actual money spent.

That being said I've played this game since release. I think I was in high school and even then I thought the game was rough. Every improvement they've made, the game seems like a full fledged game now on the surface but any person with hundreds of hours can tell you the truth.

The fun of this game comes from a simple gameplay loop, literal looping in this case, one that is very satisfying at certain higher levels of skill under certain conditions for both Survivors and the Killer. That's it. That's the whole game. Loop for long enough for your teammates to do boring generators and escape.

For years the developers have added ANDs to that sentence. Loop for long enough for your teammates to do boring generators and escape AND disable your head trap from SAW. Or maybe AND don't get ONE SHOTTED by Michael Myers.

Most who play this game these days seem to play it as a practice in misery. A theater of errors that is truly quite comedic. The developers of this game have almost impressively stretched this games VERY limited mechanics to the edges of insanity.

Some of these stretches in design are innovative but most are gimmicks, the same gameplay mechanic in a slightly different skin.

The developers clearly view this game as a "live service" "game". FOMO marketing tactics for seasonal events and skins, licenses leaving (Stranger Things) seemingly for good before being brought back.

It's a shame really, every other developer whose attempted to expand on killer/survivor horror style asymmetrical games has failed and the developers of this game clearly have no desire to innovate, just profit off this game as much as they can. A Dead By Daylight 2 would probably just be the same thing... :(

Hopefully one day another developer will expand on the greatest aspects of this game: the satisfaction of looping the killer, outsmarting survivors, using your perks to make plays with your teammates or as the killer. There's for sure a diamond of a game in this mess of a game that Behaviour has been polishing for years but I'm afraid Behaviour simply can't fathom how to actually improve on their one genius idea with anything more than gimmicks.

(My hours in this game on Steam do not reflect my actual playtime in this game as I primarily use PS5 with most my hours over the years spent on the PS4 version)

Sorry for the all over the place review but this game is truly not worth it for a new player.

Cool concept with a terrible developer and worse community

Playing this game was the biggest mistake of my life. I would not recommend this to anyone looking for a "fun game to play with friends." It has some of the most awful people I've ever encountered in a video game and is horribly unbalanced. Not even fun with friends.

This game is literally a scam, people have had progress lost, items stolen, currency taken, and entire accounts get popped while support sends automated responses to almost everyone. The most recent controversy is the game literally stealing paid currency without giving the skins people purchased because it isn’t allowed in their region. When asked for a refund they basically responded with a “lol sorry no can do” and then started sending out bot responses. Behavior are scam artists and I will forever hope for the worst for everyone involved.