Dead by Daylight

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  1. ExRegeOberon
    Jun 20, 2016
    3
    So far, this game is utterly unplayable at a satisfying level.

    If this game has set out to be an immersive, terrifying horror experience, it has failed. The moment you introduce a progression system and a ranking system, it becomes all about the grind. People will play it not for the experience, but to be the best, to be number one at all costs. This, in most situations, would not be    So far, this game is utterly unplayable at a satisfying level.

    If this game has set out to be an immersive, terrifying horror experience, it has failed. The moment you introduce a progression system and a ranking system, it becomes all about the grind. People will play it not for the experience, but to be the best, to be number one at all costs. This, in most situations, would not be all that bad, if we were talking about a sports game or a MOBA. However, this is not either of those. This is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror title.

    When you enable players to begin playing "for points," all elements of immersion are tossed out the window. Survivors are encouraged to do blatantly stupid things such as encourage killers to chase them, not as distractions serving to buy their friends more time but simply to farm the points. When something doesn't go their way, killers and survivors alike quit to avoid losing precious, precious rank.

    There is no replayability here. Once survivors learn "the tactics," the juke spots, how to exploit animations, how to exploit mechanics, and most importantly, that nothing but the sweet points matter, there will be no game. There will be no engagement, no variation and no fun.

    The only attraction this game has is to frighten Youtubers and have a laughing good time with a small group of friends, and then discard it immediately.

    If that were not enough, this game is a buggy, unplayable mess.

    There are good ideas here. The overall theme of the game, that of an asymmetrical multiplayer horror title, is interesting. Some of the mechanics presented are unique, and on the surface, they work. However, if you go anywhere deeper into this game, more than just a game or two with friends, you will run into countless bugs including, but not limited to:

    *Perks that do not work. Some perks are simply nonfunctional. There has been a patch to address nonfunctioning perks, but it has not fixed all of them.

    *Latency issues causing warping/teleporting survivors - this appears to be because the killer is the host in all situations, regardless of who has the best internet connection. This also allows the killer to DC and take the game, and everyone's points, with them.

    *If survivors are knocked down near other things that require the interaction key to be pressed (default Spacebar), such as being knocked down next to a window that you can vault over, the survivor can become uninteractable, preventing the killer from picking them up to go sacrifice them, or friends from being able to help them back up.

    *Problems with hacking and exploiting are abundant. The game stores everything locally, and as a result it is possible for players to compromise the game using tricks or malicious tools or editing software that grants them anything from experience points (called blood points in-game) to invincibility, invisibility, super speed, infinite limited-use items, and worse.

    *There are a million, million clipping issues, places to get hung up on or stuck on terrain, animation errors, hit box errors, and issues such as "If someone disconnects while the killer is carrying them, the killer's game will freeze." You can also become stuck in the geometry with no way out.

    *Various problems with the ranked system. Currently the game is plagued by disconnects and ragequitters who will pull the plug because disconnecting does NOT cause you to lose ranks, only your accumulated points. Disconnecting is completely safe because you do not lose any rank rating AT ALL for disconnecting.

    *Balancing issues abound. Currently, survivors are able to "cheese" the killer by using window ledges or pallets that they can jump over indefinitely, while killers traverse much slower. Survivors are able to hop over windows infinitely, kiting killers with no recourse (such as the hillbilly and wraith, both of whom have no effective counterplay to window hopping).

    *An absolutely terrible progression system that rewards you with RANDOM upgrades that you purchase with points earned in every match, which encourages people to farm points. This sometimes leads to survivors purposefully baiting killers, or killiers repeatedly spamming abilities (such as the wraith's invisibility) just to earn points. If you don't get ENOUGH points in a match, regardless of whether you escape or everyone dies, you lost rank.

    *A terrible ranking system based on the points you earn, which can be impeded in a number of ways, as described above. If a survivor ragequits because a killer grabbed them early, the killer gets NO points and may even lose ranking!

    Do not purchase this game. It is not worth your money.    … Expand
  2. Aeon_Amadi
    Jun 28, 2016
    1
    Game would probably be amazing if they had bothered to do any optimization at all. The graphics settings are preset, so literally the only thing you can do to optimize it yourself is choose 'Low, Med, High, Ultra', but even on the lowest settings a decent rig will struggle. More than a few people on Reddit and Steam have stated that the framerates are subpar with a unanimous
  3. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 21, 2017
    4
    Dead by Daylight
    Annoying for everyone
    Dead by Daylight is a competitive online game where you play as either a survivor, or the killer… Both of these characters are customizable....and are leveled up by completeing tasks and actions in a match… At the end of a match you can use your earned points and dump them into a skill tree to buff your character… And all matches are ranked so    Dead by Daylight
    Annoying for everyone
    Dead by Daylight is a competitive online game where you play as either a survivor, or the killer…
    Both of these characters are customizable....and are leveled up by completeing tasks and actions in a match…
    At the end of a match you can use your earned points and dump them into a skill tree to buff your character…
    And all matches are ranked so don’t worry about unbalanced games
    But these features are the only good this game has going for it, because the rest is a bunch of sluggish and boring garbage…
    There is no story mode here, no prepper tutorial... Just 1 single game mode of survive or hunt…
    As a survivor your goal is to escape with all the members in your group…
    This is a 4 v 1 game
    Run around an uninteresting map looking for repair parts and using these parts the sabotage hooks and fix the generators around the map…
    then activate the gates and escape…
    All the meanwhile trying not get caught and healing teammates that do get injured as you’re able to wiggle your way from the killer, and you’re able to help your teammates off of the hooks…
    Being a survivor is in no way fun at all though...
    You can hide in closets... push things in front of the killer as you try to run away...
    But for the most part youre just feeling your way around a dark map hoping you find something so you can leave…
    chases aren’t thrilling, theyre sluggish and cheap…
    And things are just as annoying for the killer…
    As the killer you run around the map trying to either zap or slash the players trying to survive..
    You can grab the hurt player, carry them to a hook and sacrifice them...
    Your goal is to sacrifice all 4 before they can escape…
    This really feels like a game of freeze tag…
    And players will constantly do the annoying playground tactics of run around a giant rock…
    or copping over a ledge over and over until you just get annoyed and crush it with your foot giving them time to run away...
    This definitely keeps the game feeling balanced…
    But it also keeps the game feeling annoying…
    especially the whole running around in circles but trying to get in a lucky swing…
    it is more satisfying to play as the killer though…
    Of catching someone who thinks they’re clever…
    And you’re given enhanced hearing so you can sense when a survivor is repairing a generator or just recently hid in a closet...
    These moments are enjoyable and almost make up for the overall dull experience that is dead by daylight…
    Almost...
    This game is still bad…
    I give Dead by Daylight
    a 4/10    … Expand
  4. AngloSaxon
    Aug 10, 2016
    6
    I've spent 52 hours in this game, and i must say, although i am not a rank 1 or a level 50, that this game needs improvement. I mean, MAJOR improvement. The game is still buggy at some point and you can't figure out which one has the most laggy connection (you may figure out killer's ping through an unconventional way). For the graphics, it needs a little bit more friendly with low-specI've spent 52 hours in this game, and i must say, although i am not a rank 1 or a level 50, that this game needs improvement. I mean, MAJOR improvement. The game is still buggy at some point and you can't figure out which one has the most laggy connection (you may figure out killer's ping through an unconventional way). For the graphics, it needs a little bit more friendly with low-spec user, knowing that it is a going to be a big online game like CS:GO which sooner or later with lot of people will be playing it. And i think the devs needs to stop thinking about adding more add-ons before the bugs, which led you stuck at random places sometimes, are fixed.… Expand
  5. mournfulness
    Dec 28, 2016
    1
    The idea is very good but the game is very very buggy and unbalanced. Killers has too much bonus and survivor never wins. Don't waste your money now. Wait at least 1 year from now.
  6. Noobplayer
    Jul 29, 2019
    1
    Not recommended! This is a game of a joke, a bad joke!

    Unbalanced, full of bugs! As a solo survivor you have no chance of getting higher rankings due to the many retarded players! 80% of killers are camper, which is fully accepted by the developers (congratulations, dear developers!) It doesn't matter that the other player hates the game from a lot of camper killers and therefore a    Not recommended! This is a game of a joke, a bad joke!

    Unbalanced, full of bugs!
    As a solo survivor you have no chance of getting higher rankings due to the many retarded players!
    80% of killers are camper, which is fully accepted by the developers (congratulations, dear developers!)

    It doesn't matter that the other player hates the game from a lot of camper killers and therefore a rage quit (for which there is a ban), but camp is a completely accepted thing in this "game" for which there is no penalty!

    And if you play a killer then you won't have much chance against swf because they are constantly communicating with each other so they can completely ruin the killer's gameing!

    But most importantly, new skins are coming, which of course you can buy for money! Instead of releasing new content or fixing that many bugs!

    Hitbox is very fantastic in this game!

    Pretty Good Job so Far, Mr. Cote!    … Expand
  7. SFAFZXFEFZ
    Jul 2, 2016
    1
    his game still feels like the beta, there are bugs, balance issues, matchmaking issues just issues all round really
    cheating and more cheating. Oh, and exploiting and stupid mechanics. You're survivor but when you run you leave a bright fire trail lel.
  8. localhost
    Oct 8, 2016
    0
    This is a horrible grinding game where the developers expect you to play 500+ hours to unlock all the NECESSARY perks to finally enjoy playing without being at an unfair disadvantage against nolifers.
    Zero Zero Zero
  9. Kitty1337
    Aug 19, 2016
    2
    Buggy as **** Runs like **** Very scarce graphics options and game lags all the time even though it isn't that pretty. You spend 90% time in lobby, because matchmaking is broken. You click "ready" and it goes into load screen, doesn't find a match and you have to click ready again. The new killer (nurse) is OP as hell. There are multiple bugs like you losing your items or perks even thoughBuggy as **** Runs like **** Very scarce graphics options and game lags all the time even though it isn't that pretty. You spend 90% time in lobby, because matchmaking is broken. You click "ready" and it goes into load screen, doesn't find a match and you have to click ready again. The new killer (nurse) is OP as hell. There are multiple bugs like you losing your items or perks even though you're not supposed to. This game should be early access. You do only one thing and it gets repetitive really quick. unless you're really into this sort of thing. Just avoid it until the fix it, which would probably be never, because this game is like hydra. They cut off one head in an update, and 2 more pop out (bugs). Awful.… Expand
  10. lilmiss
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    its a good game but its very glitchy , hard to run when getting away from a killer , too many hackers and too many bugs , at this point im done with the game
  11. GWheelz
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    Fun for one week. Then you grow tired of it and start to realize that it's not broken because it's new, it's actually broken cause the developers have no clue what they are doing. Not to mention, the new asylum map? It doesn't even look like an asylum, it's just the same map as always with one small two floored shack in the middle of it? Also don't even get me started with the two ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥tFun for one week. Then you grow tired of it and start to realize that it's not broken because it's new, it's actually broken cause the developers have no clue what they are doing. Not to mention, the new asylum map? It doesn't even look like an asylum, it's just the same map as always with one small two floored shack in the middle of it? Also don't even get me started with the two ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t killers, I mean, what the ♥♥♥♥? The wraith is so dumb he can just cloak and find you instantly cause you have no idea of where abouts where he is or if he is watching you unless you have a nice perk. The one main source of getting away from the killers while being seen instead of hiding is putting down the wooden door shields, and the nurse can ♥♥♥♥ing go through them? ARE YOU SERIOUS? Seriously make some new maps, re do the killers and get your ♥♥♥♥ together with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t ready up issues. I mean, how hard is it to code an auto ready up script? It feels like I am playing ready up simulator. Get your ♥♥♥♥ together or seriously consider drinking bleach...
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  12. tpowers1234
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    This Game is very bad at connecting to servers, game breaking glitches(under map,ect),
    Disconnects me at random times, is a great concept just should have been looked over more before put out for players to play. if this game had a proper fix instead of uneeded ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t updates. Whenever i survive with friends and try to connect to a lobby we have to ready up over, and over, and over    This Game is very bad at connecting to servers, game breaking glitches(under map,ect),
    Disconnects me at random times, is a great concept just should have been looked over more before put out for players to play. if this game had a proper fix instead of uneeded ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t updates. Whenever i survive with friends and try to connect to a lobby we have to ready up over, and over, and over again. will play alot more if the developers can fix these hiccups that the makers left out. Do not buy unless ur looking to get frustrated trying to join online games.    … Expand
  13. Xion
    May 28, 2020
    0
    A depressingly garbage game. Zealots and twitch streamers will swear that it has good features but they're objectively wrong. The game is unfinished, pay-to-win **** and depends wholly on nostalgia for the slasher genre fans to keep it alive. BeHavior is frankly a terrible studio that got lucky with this one. Their past games were failures and their attempts to get away from DBD with gamesA depressingly garbage game. Zealots and twitch streamers will swear that it has good features but they're objectively wrong. The game is unfinished, pay-to-win **** and depends wholly on nostalgia for the slasher genre fans to keep it alive. BeHavior is frankly a terrible studio that got lucky with this one. Their past games were failures and their attempts to get away from DBD with games like Deathgarden were equally pathetic. French Canadians just have no place in game design. They'll try to make more asymmetrical games for sure and I hope they continue to fail.… Expand
  14. MasterHoover
    Oct 18, 2021
    5
    This game is best when you start playing it and you're noob. The best is when you're survivor and play against a noob killer because the game is actually fun, tense and fair. When you get to know the meta it starts to become frustrating. Here's what happens then:

    Survivors complain killers are OP because they have insta-down power, can teleport/charge across the map, can camp, can know    This game is best when you start playing it and you're noob. The best is when you're survivor and play against a noob killer because the game is actually fun, tense and fair. When you get to know the meta it starts to become frustrating. Here's what happens then:

    Survivors complain killers are OP because they have insta-down power, can teleport/charge across the map, can camp, can know exactly where you are, have ruin/undying/tinkerer/pop (some of the bests perks of the game).

    Killer complains survivors are OP because they loop perfectly, makes you loop the same big building like 3 times in a row before you can even hit them once, makes you eat pallet in the face every 10 steps, and finally hook a survivor after 3-4 gens are done already. All 4 of the survivors have decisive strike which allow them to get off the killer's grasp, or borrowed time which allows them to be hit without being injured X seconds after being saved from a hook, so essentially just stalling for even more times just so you have to chase those survivors even more, wasting you so much time in one single chase while all 5 gens pops.

    I'm amazingly noob at this game, but I learned the meta by watching A LOT of killer/survivor streamers. I think the huge problem of this games are the perks. There is just too much now. A perk is essentially a passive, a power, you can equip. The thing is, this game allows the perk of one survivor/killer to be learned by other survivor/killers. Imagine how dumb it would be if in a moba, every single hero/champion/whatever could learn and use every single skill in the game? What would happen?

    Of course, EVERYBODY would uses the same 4-8 most powerful skill regardless of character (best stun, damage, healing, CC skills and who cares about the rest. It's really what's happening with DBD. Survivor and killer running almost always the same powerful perks because 3/4 of all the perks are completely useless or obsolete. It's really hilarious. A new killer/survivor appears with their own new perks, and then the same old perks are used on them anyway. It's really dumb. I also think it causes hell for behaviour to balance the game.

    The game has become unfun and repetitive. Get looped the same way every game, loop the killer the same way every game, use the same perks every game, cleanse the ruin/undying totem every game. I think behaviour needs to add new STUFF to do in the map beside throwing pallet on the killer and balance the game around it. It's never gonna happen. The game is 4 years old and too much people playing it still. Too much of a risk. Anyway, game's a real bore for me. I even got bored to hell watching the streamers.    … Expand
  15. Optin
    Dec 1, 2019
    5
    Experience
    This game used to be fun and fair. But now it sucks and unfair they destroyed the purpose of so many items and perks. Like for instance decisive strike used to be a great perk but now it’s ruined they ruined the game. They made too much killers over powered like Michael Myers he now has almost no heartbeat. The game also lacks listening to the fans and players. What used to be a    Experience
    This game used to be fun and fair. But now it sucks and unfair they destroyed the purpose of so many items and perks. Like for instance decisive strike used to be a great perk but now it’s ruined they ruined the game. They made too much killers over powered like Michael Myers he now has almost no heartbeat. The game also lacks listening to the fans and players. What used to be a fun and terrifying game turned into an a boring, unfun, and just overall dumb. They only help the killer side not the survivor side so as right now I rate this a 5/10. But with the soon efforts of the ink update coming with the ability to undo pallets maybe they are going to start making efforts to help the games survivor side of the spectrum. Graphics
    The games graphics are playable, not terrible but not great. We can see the hairs, but they look like rubber. You can see the cubes on the lines. If they were to update this games graphics, this game would be really cool Realistics
    This game is decently fun to play but the hit box on the survivors is just annoying. Make them smaller. Also make the clothes able to rip. Final opinion This game is decently fun. I don’t hate, but I don’t love it anymore. It used to be really fun and I use to not mind the graphics but this game no uninterest me. This game could be fun if they worked more on the survivors behalf and not just the killers.    … Expand
  16. nikujon
    Mar 2, 2020
    0
    bad in matchmaking... always unbalance match,survivors always with unfair skill & become toxic because he feels himself a senior even though it's nothing in the real world,because always win,the killer cannot killl anyone is because the killer is newbie like adult vs baby... what a shame,always killer get nerf but the survivors not get nerf like tom & jerry... killer the stupid cat &bad in matchmaking... always unbalance match,survivors always with unfair skill & become toxic because he feels himself a senior even though it's nothing in the real world,because always win,the killer cannot killl anyone is because the killer is newbie like adult vs baby... what a shame,always killer get nerf but the survivors not get nerf like tom & jerry... killer the stupid cat & survivors like smart mouse... sometimes survivor like mouse because always use unfair skill & he feels proud because can defeat newbie killer like adult can defeat baby is pride,like animal rules... only strong will become survive & always doing toxic dance when survivors feel victorious in escape gate like kid never grown become good people,when killer cannot kill anyone... always troll toxic dance in escape gate,when match end will troll again in chat box,is because everyone want become like youtuber made video troll people is fun..."not toxic is not fun",survivors not aware he/she brain is true killer,not become good gamer to newbie killer... dbd same toxic like dota 2,vainglory,become good guy,smart play always get troll(my experience),this is why i not like become survivors in the end,because i know will more get bully 100%,become slave etz... i choice chaos side(killer),become killer always alone,hide chat box end match,block user when people add me,all is my enemy like pubg... 1 vs 100,why play game must doing toxic to people you don't know?, because your are spoiled child?,victim bully?,nobody in real world,devil man?
    become good side(survivor) will more get bully,become slave for veteran player(always bully newbie player like loser puppy)    … Expand
  17. HeisenbergW
    Jul 31, 2020
    5
    It's a how should I say ... a love-hate relationship.
    You can't put it into words how badly the game is balanced.
    The design of most maps is cruel. Infinite loops for the survivor, a few lots of pallets and and and ... You'd think I was a killer, but no, I'm not. I know the game inside and out from both sides. Speak to survivors and killers. If you don't act too stupid as a survivor,    It's a how should I say ... a love-hate relationship.
    You can't put it into words how badly the game is balanced.
    The design of most maps is cruel. Infinite loops for the survivor, a few lots of pallets and and and ...
    You'd think I was a killer, but no, I'm not. I know the game inside and out from both sides. Speak to survivors and killers.
    If you don't act too stupid as a survivor, the killer has 0% chance against 4 good survivors. As soon as you become a killer, the survivors become very exhausting and very provocative. Provoke the killer all game long but don't get along if they lose and spit on you with poison and bile in the endgame chat.
    I no longer remember how many offensive comments I had to delete from my profile.
    In other games you get banned for such nasty behavior, but the devs look away every time, the main thing is that the DLCs and the micro transactions sell well!

    Pros:
    - good addiction factor
    - acceptable co-op game
    - good soundscape
    - Varied killers (i.e., against every killer, you have to do it differently)
    - Killer designs are awesome! (Survivors too, of course)
    - The game is always filled with fresh content (i.e. new killers, maps, survivors etc ...)
    that's it from the good side ...

    Contrasts:
    - Terrible map design
    - From a certain rank, the game is very frustrating for the killer (with me from rank 5)
    - Uninteresting gameplay for survivors (read, the survivors have only one goal and that would be to repair generators)
    - Lap lengths (I had laps that only ran 5 minutes because the repair speed from the generators is just too high.
    - The community (rarely seen such a toxic community)!
    - Matchmaking (after Rankreset you don't dare to play as a killer for 2 weeks, because then smurfs will run around everywhere.)
    - bugs, graphic errors, crashes etc ... etc ... etc ...
    - Perks too strong for survivors! (Of course there are also very strong perks for the killer but one shouldn't forget that it is 1v4!
    - badly balanced (once the survivors have a disadvantage and once the killers sometimes have a disadvantage, but in the end the killer has the most disadvantages, even though he is the power role)!

    DBD is not a bad game, but it is also not a good game. It is more in the middle area. There is no lack of creativity, but competent developers.
    Whoever wants to play the game should do it. You will have fun but for how long?
    Although I gave a thumbs down, I will still recommend the game, the DBD is not a bad game. If the Devs listened to a few experienced players who were playing the game from both sides, DBD would change for the better. But until then, DBD will only be a mediocre product on the market for in between!

    5/10    … Expand
  18. Omgramen
    Jul 27, 2020
    2
    Let me start by saying this game is a great idea and has lots of great potential. But the devs have their heads so far up their asses they won’t fix exploits or balance their game. There are a alot of things that completely ruin this game. The killer can literally face camp or tunnel survivors with little to no consequence. This leads to either gen rushing and leaving the person on theLet me start by saying this game is a great idea and has lots of great potential. But the devs have their heads so far up their asses they won’t fix exploits or balance their game. There are a alot of things that completely ruin this game. The killer can literally face camp or tunnel survivors with little to no consequence. This leads to either gen rushing and leaving the person on the hook or being too altruistic and basically saving the person on the hook only to knocked down and put back on the hook immediately. They need to have a Kindred as a passive perk to discourage this behavior or give a dumbed down version of Borrowed Time. As a killer I feel like you have a good chance to “win”(I consider killing at least 2 people good) if you know your characters strengths. Also there are some very OP killers and it seems like the devs only try to make every killer more busted than the last. The ranking system is a joke for multiple reasons but the biggest is farming. Killers control the game so if they wanna farm then everyone is ranking up. The DC temporary ban has given the killer more control and some even take the game hostage by letting the same survivor wiggle off their shoulder and they will just keep downing them...This game used to be very fun but lately it’s a mess. Basically if you want to have fun don’t care about winning, just troll and you’ll have a great time. Also devs have **** on survivors items all the while killer add one have only gotten more busted. I play survivor more bc I like playing with friends. But nowadays we only play to give the killer a hard time not even care about winning. My message to devs is: BALANCE YOUR GAME! Stop coming out with cosmetic crap no one cares about! You have become greedy and lost sight of what the game started out as.… Expand
  19. HammudHabibi
    Sep 19, 2020
    1
    Dont play this game for your brain health. This is not funny or horror. Game mechanics is good enough for a **** game.
  20. deadbydaylight
    Jun 19, 2016
    3
    No resolution options
    No control rebinding
    No sensitivity options
    No way to play with friends and progress
    Numerous exploits
    P2P
    Tied to starbreeze of payday "fame"
  21. Tenarus
    Dec 21, 2020
    1
    The game is just filled to the brim with killers who either camp or tunnel. Both behaviours are just bad and take the whole fun out of the game. As long, as such behaviour does not get punished, the game is not worth to be played.
  22. spermaximo
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    I really have no clue on rating it....played it...uninstalled it...dust collection listed it...over hyped...no game game found plenty of times...why that's because hunter has become the hunted...retarded yes with the 20+ obstacles...it all almost seems endless...chasing one survivor all over and all the generators are done...high lvl sabotage...quick sabotage super rare perks...alsoI really have no clue on rating it....played it...uninstalled it...dust collection listed it...over hyped...no game game found plenty of times...why that's because hunter has become the hunted...retarded yes with the 20+ obstacles...it all almost seems endless...chasing one survivor all over and all the generators are done...high lvl sabotage...quick sabotage super rare perks...also crippled survivors isn't really what you call crippled...still fast hard to chase...a hunter isn't really a hunter because he cant seem to close in...bleed effect isn't a real thing in this game...no blood trail effects for hunter to follow...in the end it really seemed bias and bland to me...matchmaking became horrible because I had one perk as a hunter with these lvl 50 characters who had 5 from super rare to ultra rare...this game just doesn't cut it for me...too bad steam doesn't have a discount buy off...or else I would trade it...it no longer is a horror title...because hunter just cant hunt them down also plus in reality if survivors can slide why cant hunters in actual horror jump it again on the closing in on prey...has become horribly horribly ehhh meek...maybe the 0 is well worth it for me because I dust collected it and uninstalled it...literally like Oberon has said survivors want you to chase them because of the 20+ obstacles you have to go through...in the end destroying that obstacle took too long...so they taunt you...then again you run into more obsolete obstacles and once again it all starts over...

    the game was fun at first, but has become horribly obsolete in a hunters eyes...
    being a survivor it was like wow ez pee z...with one perk also...
    literally the game needs real balancing in game and level matchmaking...
    the competitive of the game lacks everything now...
    sorry to admit it but the roles has switched in this game..a horror for the hunter..also lacks content...repetitive stages...fog has increased to immensely foggy...no speed up death when hitting or chainsawing your victims is odd especially since they are just hanging there...they really should just add a smart ai since I feel it really is survivor based now since hunters always kept getting nerfed...and so long Dead by Daylight...forever...    … Expand
  23. axtonrider
    Nov 24, 2016
    3
    hundreds of thousands people bought this game and dlc's but they won't afford a server, the matchmaking is screwed it disconnects often and if the player who hosts the game has a bad ping....its unplayable and you just lose....
  24. akhnaten
    Nov 2, 2016
    0
    I agree with localhost. I have played this game for 10 hours and the game is not enjoyable. It is unplayable as a low level character and after 10 hours of play I was negligibly closer to not being a low level character. The game if FAR too biased toward the killer. So much so that I never found the "horror" game horrific or even scary. I was always killed so quickly that I never gotI agree with localhost. I have played this game for 10 hours and the game is not enjoyable. It is unplayable as a low level character and after 10 hours of play I was negligibly closer to not being a low level character. The game if FAR too biased toward the killer. So much so that I never found the "horror" game horrific or even scary. I was always killed so quickly that I never got emotionally invested in my character. I never felt I had a fair shot at surviving. I am not willing to put 500 hours into a game to make it fun.… Expand
  25. AnalTwerkMaster
    Jan 5, 2017
    0
    cheaters cheaters cheaters. every game 3 of 4 players with hacked perks. it's too easy to hack and there is no punish for this ****
    idiot developers with great idea.
  26. Vawaigragovno
    Jan 8, 2017
    0
    sux game sux TP sux balance, this game a sux. Stupid unbalance game. survive it's imba wen u play maniac or sux wen u plau sur, becouse u play 20 surv vs u play 1 maniack + full perck's
  27. FakeNerdGuy
    Oct 29, 2016
    4
    I bought this game on Halloween Steam sale... I heard how great this game is a lot so I decided to check it. The concept is kind of great... but technical part sucks. Its laggy, locations are boring, not enough characters, and matchmaking doesn't work at all. All locations are almost identical the only difference is blocks (yeah exactly blocks) that used to built most part of locations onI bought this game on Halloween Steam sale... I heard how great this game is a lot so I decided to check it. The concept is kind of great... but technical part sucks. Its laggy, locations are boring, not enough characters, and matchmaking doesn't work at all. All locations are almost identical the only difference is blocks (yeah exactly blocks) that used to built most part of locations on some locations its junk on other bricks and etc. Characters look dumb and not interesting and to customize them player must buy pile of clothes packs for 2$.… Expand
  28. Donnie_Plays
    May 31, 2019
    3
    While I can appreciate the general overall idea of what this game does... I'm just not on board with how it's executed. The game is very repetitive. It's one of the most noticeable things about the game. Basically every match plays out the same way. Players sneak around, run generators and attempt to escape a murderer. There are times when I think the game has potential. I bought threeWhile I can appreciate the general overall idea of what this game does... I'm just not on board with how it's executed. The game is very repetitive. It's one of the most noticeable things about the game. Basically every match plays out the same way. Players sneak around, run generators and attempt to escape a murderer. There are times when I think the game has potential. I bought three DLC's with this game. I wanted to play as Freddy, Leatherface and Michael Myers. I realized that I had already spent $40 on this game. I began looking at all the content. It's $120 worth of content.

    Basically... there are cosmetic and animation differences between the DLC"s and that's basically it. The game does not change. It's the same game. Sure you go into different environments but you do not do anything different. Regardless of the DLC. The game seems fun at first but wears out fast. There is an upgrade system to unlock things... but it's just not enough for me.    … Expand
  29. PremiumR98
    Oct 27, 2019
    0
    Ужасная игра, куча платного контента, ужасная графика даже по меркам 2018'го года, мувмент никакой, атмосферы тоже
  30. La0RiX
    Aug 17, 2021
    0
    All of those people saying killers are OP, didn't play the game enough. They just didn't learn to play the game properly, because if they did they would know it is actually the other way around. I have over 500 hours in the game and i know things or two both about survivor and killer game play. Let¨s say hypothetically all 4 survivors play perfectly and killer also play perfectly chancesAll of those people saying killers are OP, didn't play the game enough. They just didn't learn to play the game properly, because if they did they would know it is actually the other way around. I have over 500 hours in the game and i know things or two both about survivor and killer game play. Let¨s say hypothetically all 4 survivors play perfectly and killer also play perfectly chances are you are still not getting a single kill unless you are playing for example the nurse. Other "problem" most 0 ratings have is camping/tunneling. This is not games fault, it is the player who decided to do so. The game is very different from others now popular multiplayer titles like League of Legends and you need to put the time in and learn the mechanics and only than review it and not saying after 10 hours killers are OP only because you didn't learn to play it PROPERLY. But yes DBD has some issues, mostly consisting of hit scan and unfair map design. In defense of developers past few months they are working to fix those problems with quite good results. Overall if you have group of friends to play with and you learn how the game works it's fun experience with high skill ceiling so it may hook you in for hundreds potentially thousands of hours.… Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#15 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#75 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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Metascore
71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The Games Machine
    Jul 4, 2017
    64
    Dead by Daylight is a missed opportunity. Despite an intriguing concept, the final result is flawed by a lot of small problems. You could still enjoy it, but in order to do so you should get over a terrible netcode, a grind-based progression system, and all too random rewards.
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  2. Stevivor
    Oct 24, 2016
    90
    An amazing survival horror experience and my favourite indie game so far this year; you’ll sure as hell see this one on my list of top 5 games of 2016.
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  3. CD-Action
    Sep 17, 2016
    60
    Disastrous scoring system encourages some players to cooperate with the killer instead of running from him and reduces promising gameplay to nonsense (e.g. when the killer picks you up, throws you into a trap, resets it, picks you up, throws you into a trap, resets it, picks you up, throws you into a trap, resets it, picks you up...). [09/2016, p.58]
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