Dead by Daylight
2016 video game
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| April 4 2025 | Removal of all Hellraiser content due to licensing issues, with Pinhead and Chatterer cosmetic remaining available to previous purchasers. |
| March 20 2025 | Dead by Daylight Mobile became completely inaccessible. |
| 2025 | Five Nights at Freddy's DLC planned for release in Summer 2025, with details of killer and survivors yet to be announced. |
| January 2025 | Dead by Daylight Mobile was removed from iOS and Android storefronts. |
| 2024 | Cross-progression implemented, allowing players to share unlocked content across different platform accounts. Game upgraded from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5. |
| December 2024 | NetEase announced that Dead by Daylight Mobile would permanently shut down by March 2025. |
| October 2024 | Jason Blum comments on the Dead by Daylight film script development, indicating the script is actively being worked on, but with an uncertain timeline ranging from 12 months to 5 years for completion. |
| September 17 2024 | Project T was canceled due to 'unsatisfactory' playtest results. On the same day, Behavior Interactive announced the closure of Midwinter Entertainment. |
| September 3 2024 | Supermassive Games releases 'The Casting of Frank Stone', an interactive drama horror game set across multiple time periods, featuring a branching narrative centered on the killer Frank Stone and the paranormal Entity. |
| June 2024 | Limited playtests for Project T were conducted during the summer. |
| June 3 2024 | Released 'Dungeons & Dragons' DLC featuring The Lich as a killer, and Aestri Yazar and Baermar Uraz as survivors, introducing Forgotten Ruins (Decimated Borgo) map. |
| May 14 2024 | An expansion for the Dead by Daylight board game was announced, promising to add new playable characters and additional game mechanics. |
| May 14 2024 | The game's working title was revealed as Project T, with development footage showing it as a third-person shooter. |
| May 14 2024 | Released 'What the Fog', a co-op roguelike game featuring original Dead by Daylight survivors Dwight, Claudette, and Feng Min, available for free to Behavior.com account holders and on Steam |
| March 6 2024 | Fourth and final issue of the Dead by Daylight comic series about The Legion was released. |
| January 2024 | Executive producer Ryan Turek gives an interview about the Dead by Daylight film adaptation, emphasizing the intent to create a video game adaptation that prioritizes fan expectations, drawing lessons from the Five Nights at Freddy's film. |
| November 2023 | The game reached 60 million players. |
| November 30 2023 | Zen Studios released a Dead by Daylight pinball table for Pinball M, allowing players to choose between playing as a killer or one of 4 survivors. |
| November 6 2023 | Stranger Things DLC was surprisingly reintroduced to the game. |
| July 2023 | Attack on Titan cosmetic items were removed from the in-game store. |
| July 25 2023 | Released 'Nicolas Cage' DLC featuring Nicolas Cage as a survivor. |
| June 14 2023 | First issue of the Dead by Daylight comic series featuring The Legion was released, written by Nadia Shammas, illustrated by Dillon Snook, and colored by Emilio Lecce. |
| May 19 2023 | An untitled spin-off game was announced as a four-player co-op PvE experience focused on themes of greed and power, to be developed by Midwinter Entertainment. |
| May 19 2023 | Behavior Interactive announced an untitled spin-off game as a four-player co-op PvE experience focused on themes of greed and power, to be developed by Midwinter Entertainment. |
| May 19 2023 | An untitled spin-off game was announced as a four-player co-op PvE experience focused on 'greed and the lust for power'. |
| April 7 2023 | Dead by Daylight: The Board Game was released after a successful Kickstarter campaign, created by Level 99 Games and distributed by Asmodee. The game features original characters up through the All Kill chapter, allowing one player to be the killer and two to four players to be survivors. |
| March 2023 | Variety reports that Jason Blum and James Wan are producing a film adaptation of Dead by Daylight through Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster, in collaboration with Behaviour Interactive. |
| March 2023 | Dead by Daylight Mobile was banned by the government of India. |
| March 15 2023 | An improved global version of Dead by Daylight Mobile was released, featuring enhanced graphics and exclusive game modes, skins, and features. |
| December 16 2022 | The original global version of Dead by Daylight Mobile was removed from mobile storefronts. |
| October 29 2022 | Behaviour Interactive announced a comic series about The Legion, to be published by Titan Comics. |
| October 21 2022 | PUBG: Battlegrounds hosted a Dead by Daylight crossover event, running until November 7, 2022. |
| August 3 2022 | Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim was released, offering a comedic visual novel where players can date four original Dead by Daylight Killers (Trapper, Huntress, Wraith, and Spirit), with guidance from Survivors Dwight and Claudette. |
| July 2022 | Attack on Titan cosmetic items were added to the game, later to be removed from the in-game store in July 2023. |
| July 2022 | Attack on Titan cosmetic items were added to the game. |
| May 2022 | Behavior Interactive acquired Midwinter Entertainment, a Seattle-based studio. |
| May 2022 | Dead by Daylight Mobile reached 25 million downloads. |
| May 2022 | The game reached 50 million players. |
| December 2021 | Boss Protocol lost the rights to the Pinhead character back to original creator Clive Barker. |
| November 17 2021 | Stranger Things DLC was initially removed from the game, with characters remaining playable only for those who had previously purchased them. |
| November 6 2021 | Surprise return of all Stranger Things content to the game. |
| October 2021 | NFT company Boss Protocol released an unauthorized NFT using the Pinhead character model, leading to player criticism and review bombing on Steam. |
| October 21 2021 | For Honor featured a 'Survivors of the Fog' crossover event with Dead by Daylight, running until November 11, 2021. |
| August 2021 | The Entity Café, a Dead by Daylight-themed café, opened on the fourth floor of the Tokyo Skytree. |
| August 2021 | Behaviour announced the Stranger Things DLC would be removed from the game after November 17, with the Hawkins National Laboratory map to be taken out of rotation. |
| June 15 2021 | Resident Evil DLC launched, adding The Nemesis killer, Leon S. Kennedy and Jill Valentine as survivors, and the Raccoon City Police Station map. |
| May 2021 | The game reached 36 million players. |
| 2020 | Game expanded to Android, iOS, PlayStation 5, Google Stadia, and Xbox Series X/S platforms. Cross-play functionality added to enable play across different platforms. |
| October 2020 | Dead by Daylight Mobile surpassed 10 million downloads. |
| August 2020 | The game reached more than 25 million players across all platforms. |
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