Do me a favour: forget what you know about The Unknown. Dead by Daylight's latest Killer might share a name with a certain social media sensation that emerged in Scotland over recent weeks, but this one's not to be trifled with. That's what I think, anyway. Creative director Dave Richard's smile is cryptic as he insists that the mystery around The Unknown, in all its unnaturally-contorted glory, is the whole point. Not even Killer gameplay designer Nicolas Barrière is able to give me a straight answer to what I consider a very fair question: what is The Unknown?
"The Unknown is difficult to talk about because it is unknown, right?" Richard laughs, citing analog horror as a core influence of the asymmetrical horror game's newest chapter. "And one of the pillars for the narrative was that this character needed to stay cryptic, and unfathomable, and unknowable. So that's how we've designed the character." In short? The DBD devs want you to play with your own theories and turn this creature into your own creepypasta. Taking one look at the physiological nightmare that is The Unknown, that shouldn't be too hard.
