The long-running multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight is about to move into the singleplayer realm courtesy of a new project in development at Supermassive Games, the developer of Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and The Quarry.
Details on the Supermassive project won't be announced until later this year, but Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour Interactive said it «will offer players an intense narrative experience filled with powerful life-or-death choices set within the backdrop of Dead by Daylight.»
«We've been working hard to blend intention, agency, and the branching storytelling of a Supermassive game together with Dead by Daylight's mythology to create an intense narrative experience filled with power life-or-death choices,» executive producer Traci Tufte said during today's Year 7 anniversary broadcast. «Our game will be set outside the Entity's realm and features the story of a new cast of characters, who players will follow for an unprecedented experience beyond the Fog.»
«This is a whole new way for horror fans to experience Dead by Daylight,» studio head Steve Goss added.
The Entity, by the way, is an omnipotent, supernatural being who travels the cosmos in search of worlds to consume. It pits survivors against killers in countless realms in order to feed off their emotions, enabling it to grow more powerful and ultimately to devour the world it's chosen. It will also occasionally manifest in the game, to make situations even worse than they already are.
A new Dead by Daylight multiplayer game is also in the works, this one being made by Scavengers studio Midwinter Entertainment, which Behaviour acquired in 2022. Details on that one are also being kept under wraps, but it sounds rather like
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