{"id":89881,"date":"2026-09-21T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89881"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:37:19","slug":"comparing-games-like-halloween-to-dead-by-daylight-doesnt-make-sense-illfonic-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89881","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Games Like Halloween To Dead By Daylight Doesn\u2019t Make Sense, Illfonic Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Halloween is the latest in a long line of asymmetrical multiplayer horror games<\/a> to release over the past decade, and like all the others, it’s faced lots of comparisons to Dead by Daylight (DBD), the decade-long leader in the genre. It’s an “easy” comparison to draw, Illfonic chief creative officer Jared Gerritzen said, but ultimately it’s inherently flawed.<\/p>\n

“It’s literally cricket versus baseball. It’s so easy to see an image of cricket and say it’s exactly like baseball; it’s like, really, is it? No, it’s not. Like, here are all these differences,” Gerritzen told me in a Zoom call. Illfonic is no stranger to this space, having made Friday the 13th,\u00a0 Predator: Hunting Grounds, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space all before Halloween.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We make a game bespoke for that franchise, for that group of horror fans, and for the people who love that <\/em>monster.”<\/p>\n

Gerritzen said that “others” make something more like “mixtapes,” which have their own merits, but the projects are too different to directly compare, as some players do.<\/p>\n

“And it’s like, how could you not want something that is built purely for Halloween? Like, if you’re a horror fan, if you’re a Halloween<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween is the latest in a long line of asymmetrical multiplayer horror games to release over the past decade, and like all the others, it’s faced lots of comparisons to Dead by Daylight (DBD), the decade-long leader in the genre. It’s an “easy” comparison to draw, Illfonic chief creative officer Jared Gerritzen said, but ultimately…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":89883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89881","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\/89881"}],"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=89881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89884,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89881\/revisions\/89884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}