{"id":74669,"date":"2026-04-03T17:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74669"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:36:41","slug":"dead-by-daylight-devs-celebrate-10-years-of-eldritch-evil-and-hope-for-many-many-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74669","title":{"rendered":"Dead by Daylight Devs Celebrate 10 Years of Eldritch Evil and Hope for Many, Many More"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Dead by Daylight turns 10 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Originally released in June 2016, the asymmetric horror game has had one hell of a \u2014 but not a hellish \u2014 decade. After what was initially a bit of a janky experience at launch, the support of millions of players over a decade has allowed Behaviour Interactive to transform DBD into a well-oiled generator. It&#8217;s gotten dozens of crossovers over the years that have added Killers and Survivors and cosmetics to the game from popular properties such as The Last of Us, Stranger Things, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Hellraiser, Alien, Chucky, Tomb Raider, Castlevania, Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s, The Walking Dead&#8230; I could go on and on. It&#8217;s also seen multiple spin-offs, including a dating sim, an interactive choice-based story game, a board game, a comic series, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-by-daylight-is-getting-a-movie-adaptation\">upcoming film adaptation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s both surviving, and killing it.<\/p>\n<p>At the Game Developers Conference last month, I sat down with Behaviour&#8217;s head of partnerships Mathieu Cote, and creative director Dave Richard to talk to them about the milestone. We covered topics such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-by-daylight-devs-say-matchmaking-rework-is-a-re-imagination-of-how-the-game-is-played\">an upcoming matchmaking rework<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-by-daylight-devs-share-their-live-service-secret-start-by-not-making-a-live-game\">how to make a successful live service game<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/were-not-going-to-do-a-dead-by-daylight-2-developer-kills-possibility-of-a-sequel\">why there<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead by Daylight turns 10 this year. Originally released in June 2016, the asymmetric horror game has had one hell of a \u2014 but not a hellish \u2014 decade. After what was initially a bit of a janky experience at launch, the support of millions of players over a decade has allowed Behaviour Interactive to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":74671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74673,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions\/74673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}