Dead by Daylight

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Dead by Daylight

Developers
	Behaviour Interactive
Publishers
2016-2017	Starbreeze Studios
2018-present	Behaviour Interactive
Engines
	Unreal Engine 5
2016-2024	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	June 14, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	71
OpenCritic	70
IGDB	67
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions	Cosmetic, Currency, Free-to-grind, Unlock
Modes	Multiplayer
Perspectives	Third-person, First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Survival horror
Themes	Horror, Supernatural
Series	Dead by Daylight

Dead by Daylight
Dead by Daylight	2016
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim	2022
The Casting of Frank Stone	TBA

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer third-person and first-person survival horror game in the Dead by Daylight series.

General information

Official forum

Official wiki

Steam Community discussions

Patch notes

Kill switch master list

Developer updates

r/deadbydaylight subreddit

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		Gold Edition also available.
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store		Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC. Gold Edition also available.
Steam		Gold Edition and Resident Evil: Collaboration Bundle also available.

All versions require a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes 12 Chapters for a total of 16 Killers and 19 Survivors with Additional Outfits & DLC Exclusive Items.

Monetization

The list below is in chronological order (according to the DLC addition dates to the Steam Store).

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Original Soundtrack	Official soundtrack.
The Last Breath Chapter	Chapter 1. Free DLC included with the base game.
The 80's Suitcase	Clothing pack.
The Halloween® Chapter	Chapter 2.
The Bloodstained Sack	Clothing pack.
Of Flesh and Mud Chapter	Chapter 3. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Maddening Darkness Pack.
Left Behind	Chapter 3.5. Free DLC included with the base game.
Headcase	Clothing pack.
Spark of Madness Chapter	Chapter 4. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Maddening Darkness Pack.
Charity Case	Clothing pack.
A Lullaby for the Dark Chapter	Chapter 5. Free DLC included with the base game.
Leatherface™	Chapter 5.5.
A Nightmare on Elm Street™	Chapter 6.
The Saw® Chapter	Chapter 7.
Curtain Call Chapter	Chapter 8. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Maddening Darkness Pack.
Shattered Bloodline Chapter	Chapter 9. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Maddening Darkness Pack.
Darkness Among Us Chapter	Chapter 10. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Old Wounds Pack.
Demise of the Faithful Chapter	Chapter 11. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Old Wounds Pack.
Ash vs Evil Dead	Chapter 11.5.
Ghost Face®	Chapter 12.
Stranger Things Chapter	Chapter 13.
Cursed Legacy Chapter	Chapter 14. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Old Wounds Pack.
Chains of Hate Chapter	Chapter 15. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Old Wounds Pack.
Silent Hill Chapter	Chapter 16.
Silent Hill Cosmetic Pack	Clothing pack. Only available when purchasing the Silent Hill Edition.
Descend Beyond Chapter	Chapter 17. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Macabre Tales Pack.
A Binding of Kin Chapter	Chapter 18. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Macabre Tales Pack.
All-Kill Chapter	Chapter 19. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Macabre Tales Pack.
Terror Expansion Pack	Character pack.
Escape Expansion Pack	Character pack.
Resident Evil Chapter	Chapter 20.
Hellraiser Chapter	Chapter 21.
Hour of the Witch Chapter	Chapter 21.5. No longer available to purchase separately. Included in Macabre Tales Pack.
Portrait of a Murder Chapter	Chapter 22.
Sadako Rising Chapter	Chapter 23.
Roots of Dread Chapter	Chapter 24.
Resident Evil: PROJECT W Chapter	Chapter 25.
Forged in Fog Chapter	Chapter 26.
Dead by Daylight x Attack on Titan: Armored Pack	Clothing pack. No longer available to purchase.
Dead by Daylight x Attack on Titan: War Hammer Pack	Clothing pack. No longer available to purchase.
Tools of Torment Chapter	Chapter 27.
End Transmission Chapter	Chapter 28.
Nicolas Cage Chapter Pack	Chapter 28.5.
Alien Chapter Pack	Chapter 29.
Chucky Chapter	Chapter 30.
Macabre Tales Pack	Characters, clothing and items pack.
Old Wounds Pack	Characters, clothing and items pack.
Maddening Darkness Pack	Characters, clothing and items pack.
Alan Wake Chapter	Chapter 30.5.
All Things Wicked Chapter	Chapter 31.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Boost	All characters (original and licensed) can be bought with real money. Each character unlocks three unique Perks that give certain advantagens to either a Killer or a Survivor.
Cosmetic	Skins and clothes for characters.
Currency	Auric Cells are the paid currency used for in-game purchases and require real money. Iridescent Shards are the free currency earned by playing the game normally, and can be used to purchase some of the characters and cosmetics from the in-game store. The game has a so-called "Shrine of Secrets", which sometimes makes Perks that would otherwise only be available through purchases with real money available for everyone through Iridescent Shards. The Perks of the Shrine of Secrets are handpicked by the developers.
Infinite spend	Auric Cells can be bought infinitely, although there's a limited quantity of cosmetics available.
Unlock	Some characters are licensed (e.g. the Nemesis from the Resident Evil series) and can only be bought with real money.

Note: all maps, including licensed ones, are DLC-independent (meaning it's possible to play on them just by having the base game purchased).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Steam	%LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadByDaylight\Saved\Config\WindowsClient
Epic Games Launcher	%LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadByDaylight\Saved\Config\EGS
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadByDaylight\Saved\Config\WinGDK
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/381210/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Game uses desktop resolution, with in-game resolution option affecting quality of in-game render. See Widescreen resolution for custom resolutions.
Multi-monitor			Player has the option between Vert- or letterboxing to 16:9.
Ultra-widescreen			Player has the option between Vert- or letterboxing to 16:9. As of patch 7.5.0, FOV for Killer can be increased up to 16°, which compensates for Vert-.
4K Ultra HD			Appears to not work by default, but can be fixed by locating the DeadByDaylight.exe file, right-clicking it, selecting Properties, selecting the Compatibility tab, clicking Change high DPI settings and then selecting the Override high DPI scaling behavior, scaling performed by: Application check box.
Field of view (FOV)		The default FOV is 87° for Killer and as of patch 7.5.0 can be adjust to 103°. Survivor FOV can only be increased by 10° for 20 seconds with a Med-Kit Add-on that's only available in Halloween Event.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		The fullscreen mode is borderless windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Always on, cannot currently be modified.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		As of Patch 7.2.0 you can set TAA or off.
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 1.0 As of Patch 7.4.0.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		As of Patch 7.2.0 you can choose from on or off.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		As of Patch 7.2.0 you can choose from 30, 59, 60, 90, 120.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Color blind mode		Options for Deuteranopia, Protanopia, and Tritanopia filters, and a slider for filter intensity.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 5 page for more details.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Widescreen resolution

Change resolution
Put "-ResX= -ResY=" with the desired values in the game launch options (e.g. -resx=1920 -resy=1080). If settings do not take effect in fullscreen mode, press Alt+↵ Enter to switch to windowed mode.

DirectX 11

Enable DirectX 11

The game uses DirectX 12 by default as of patch 7.7.0, but some users have reported less sttutering and more performance with the DirectX 11 API while playing the game. Before enabling this, be sure your GPU supports it. Not all users benefit from DirectX 11. Some have better performance with DirectX 12. Try both and see which works best for you. Go to your launcher's launch options section (for Steam, that would be right-clicking the game in your library and going to "Properties..."). Add -dx11 to the launch options.

Skip the intro video

Delete the intro video file

Go to <path-to-game>\DeadByDaylight\Content\Movies\AdditionalLoadingScreen\LoadingScreenPostLogin.bk2. Delete the LoadingScreenPostLogin.bk2 video file. A key press will still be necessary to go to the main menu ("Press SPACE to continue"). When the game is updated, the file may be regenerated. Replacing the LoadingScreenPostLogin.bk2 within the AdditionalLoadingScreen Folder with the mentioned LoadingScreen.bk2 File replaces the File with the initial intro Video. Basically terminating the played video, as it lasts only for a few seconds, this file will get replaced with every patch, as of now, this seems to work.

Input

Input Controls

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Separate Survivor and Killer controls.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Different sliders for Killer and Survivor. See Mouse sensitivity for advanced configuration. Killer's vertical sensitivity is much lower than Survivor's.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Combined for both keyboard and controller.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Combined for both keyboard and controller.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		Supported via Steam Input.
PlayStation button prompts		Requires Steam Input, prompts are automatically used.
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Button prompts		Visible during QTEs.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		As of February 2021, the new UI may result in unwanted button prompt switching behaviour. It does not affect functionality.[citation needed]

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  Survivor controls.

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  Killer controls.

Mouse sensitivity

Set mouse sensitivity

Go to the configuration files location. Open Input.ini. Add the following lines, changing the Sensitivity values on the MouseX and MouseY Axes as desired: [/Script/Engine.InputSettings] AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="MouseX",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.000000,Sensitivity=0.015000,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)) AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="MouseY",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.000000,Sensitivity=0.015000,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)) AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="Gamepad_RightX",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.050000,Sensitivity=1.00000,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)) AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="Gamepad_RightY",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.050000,Sensitivity=1.00000,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)) AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="Gamepad_LeftX",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.050000,Sensitivity=1.00000,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)) AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="Gamepad_LeftY",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.050000,Sensitivity=1.00000,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)) Adding the Mouse Axes without the Gamepad Axes disables both controller joysticks in gameplay, and the player character will slowly move on their own unless these Axes are added to set their deadzone above 0.

Audio

Audio Settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Only "main volume" and "menu music" sliders.
Surround sound		Polls setting from the OS. "Configure Speakers" for the primary output device to change surround sound options. 5.1 SL/SR and RL/RR options output sound correctly.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		As of patch 7.6.0 an option has been added to disable copyrighted music.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Only Canadian English available.
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch				Advertised but not available. Removed on patch 3.5.0.
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish				Advertised but not available. Removed on patch 3.5.0.
Thai
Turkish

Network

"Play as Killer" and "Play as Survivor" will affect grades; custom games won't.

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		5	Versus Player vs. bot also available.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer		Was used before the switch to dedicated servers.
Dedicated		Since October 2019.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues Unresolved

Shader compilation stutter

The game suffers from severe shader compilation related stutters during gameplay, this occurs whenever a new effect is displayed and thus whenever a new shader has to be compiled.

Other information

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	As of patch 7.7.0 DirectX 12 is used by default. See the DirectX 11 section above on how to enable it for other versions.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX	3.3 with APEX 1.3
Audio	Wwise
Interface	Scaleform
Multiplayer	Steamworks
Anti-cheat	Easy Anti-Cheat

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4170 AMD FX-8120	AMD FX-8300
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 8800 4 GB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 11 compatible
Other	Broadband Internet connection With these requirements, it is recommended that the game is played on Low quality settings.

A 64-bit operating system is required.