Dead by Daylight Jumps to Positive Ratings After Steam Hides ‘Off-Topic’ Reviews Following BurntPeanut Backlash

Dead by Daylight has returned to ‘Mostly Positive’ recent reviews on Steam after Valve labeled a chunk of ratings surrounding TheBurntPeanut backlash as ‘off-topic.’

To catch you up to speed, developer Behaviour Interactive’s recent work with controversial streamer TheBurntPeanut landed its asymmetrical horror game in the line of fire. A few apologetic posts and hundreds of comments later, Dead by Daylight spent much of this week showing declining favorability ratings on Steam (via SteamDB) – but that now seems to be a thing of the past.

Check out its Steam page today, and you’ll find that Dead by Daylight now boasts ‘Mostly Positive’ reviews, with a little asterisk clarifying the reasoning for this sudden jump. A disclaimer shared in the reviews section of its page notes that the dates between November 1 – 6 have been noted for off-topic activity. Valve explained that the range has been “marked as containing an abnormal set of reviews that we believe are largely unrelated to the likelihood that you would enjoy the product.” As a result, “the reviews within this period are excluded from the Review Score by default.”