Dead by Daylight is an intertextual breeding ground for horror nerds. The asymmetrical horror game began life in 2016 as a love letter to classic slasher icons, where Michael Myers, Ghostface, and Pinhead can be found chasing down helpless Survivors in a bloody game of cat and mouse. But if 2023's meme-worthy Nicholas Cage chapter indicates anything, it's that it's evolved into a massive, multifaceted beast.
"It's kind of a weird thing that we could not have predicted, where by expanding it and making it somehow less focused, we allow people to feel even more invested in it," says Behaviour Interactive's Mathieu Cote, game director for Dead by Daylight. Recent announcements put that wider aperture into perspective.
