{"id":84355,"date":"2026-06-11T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84355"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:36:33","slug":"dead-by-daylight-the-most-played-horror-game-in-history-its-developer-has-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84355","title":{"rendered":"Dead by Daylight the &#8216;Most-Played Horror Game in History,&#8217; Its Developer Has Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/dead-by-daylight\">Dead by Daylight<\/a> is \u201cthe most played horror game in history,\u201d developer Behavior Interactive has said ahead of its 10th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>While Behavior hasn\u2019t revealed an updated sales number for the asymmetrical 4v1 multiplayer, live service horror game, it did say it had more than 70 million players over the course of the decade, and currently averages over 1 million players a day across all platforms. Dead by Daylight is particularly strong on Steam, where it\u2019s remained among the top 15 best-sellers for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders for the most-played horror game crown include titles in Capcom\u2019s Resident Evil franchise, Konami\u2019s Silent Hill series, the Five Knights at Freddy\u2019s games, Phasmophobia, and Outlast. But it\u2019s worth noting that Dead by Daylight\u2019s claim to fame relates to player numbers for an individual title, not a franchise as a whole \u2014 and there aren\u2019t many horror video games that have proven so popular over the course of 10 years to compete with it.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-25-best-horror-video-games-ever\" data-value=\"the-25-best-horror-video-games-ever\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>And Dead by Daylight appears to be growing, with Behavior saying revenues have increased by more than 50% over the last 12 months. When Dead by daylight launched back in 2016, 30 people were working on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead by Daylight is \u201cthe most played horror game in history,\u201d developer Behavior Interactive has said ahead of its 10th birthday. While Behavior hasn\u2019t revealed an updated sales number for the asymmetrical 4v1 multiplayer, live service horror game, it did say it had more than 70 million players over the course of the decade, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":84357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84355"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84359,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84355\/revisions\/84359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}