{"id":84432,"date":"2026-06-14T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84432"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:36:36","slug":"dead-by-daylight-is-more-violent-than-ever-and-the-devs-told-me-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84432","title":{"rendered":"Dead By Daylight Is More Violent Than Ever, And The Devs Told Me Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/dead-by-daylight\/\" id=\"310237\">Dead by Daylight<\/a> is now 10 years old and has been played by 70 million players worldwide, making it one of the older and most successful live-service games&#8211;and horror games&#8211;ever made. It&#8217;s changed a lot over those years, but one change you may have noticed is in its depictions of violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game <em>has<\/em> gotten more graphic over time, the game&#8217;s creative director Dave Richard explained to me. It&#8217;s been a conscious decision by the team, and he explained how pop culture&#8217;s increased interest in horror led to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When we started Dead by Daylight, we wanted to be as accessible as possible. We&#8217;ve talked of other games like Outlast, for example, and you know, [Outlast developer Red Barrels] are our neighbors. We love them, but we wanted DBD to be scary, thrilling, but also accessible to more people, so that subjects that are too disgusting, or too violent, or, you know, too horror, would not be part of Dead by Daylight, so that we get as many people as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But today we&#8217;re revising this level, and we&#8217;ve been doing it through the years, raising the volume a little bit more every year. With the horror renewal and people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead by Daylight is now 10 years old and has been played by 70 million players worldwide, making it one of the older and most successful live-service games&#8211;and horror games&#8211;ever made. It&#8217;s changed a lot over those years, but one change you may have noticed is in its depictions of violence.\u00a0 The game has gotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":84434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84432","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\/84432"}],"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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84435,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84432\/revisions\/84435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}