Dead by Daylight Review

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We review Dead by Daylight, a 1 vs Many board game published by Level 99 Games. Dead by Daylight is a tabletop game based on the popular video game of the same name.

Let’s check out the abandoned auto lot. Definitely no supernatural murders there. And even if there is one, I’m sure the exit door is operating just fine.

It’s fine.

Dead by Daylight is a 1 vs. many deduction and survival game for three to five players. It plays best with five.

In Dead by Daylight, one player will play as a supernatural killer, while all other players act cooperatively as a team of survivors. The goal is for the survivors to repair 4 generators and power an exit door before the killer fills their Sacrifice Progress Track.

The gameplay is pretty simple. Each round, every survivor plays one movement card face down, while the killer plays two. Then, the survivors will take their turns, moving if they played a card that matches a path connected to their current sector. After moving, a survivor must flip over a token in the new room they enter. Then, they may complete a token interaction or other available action, such as healing a fellow survivor.

All token actions are explained on the handy reference sheets included on the back of all character boards. The survivors can interact with all token types. Generators and exit doors can be interacted with to be repaired by rolling dice. This is how survivors win. Crow tokens can be interacted with to gain a survivor bonus turn. This allows another movement card from the player’s hand and take a second action. Locker tokens can be used to hide in, while chests contain items.

The killer can also interact with these tokens. They can sabotage a generator that’s being worked on, remove a crow token, pull a survivor out of the locker, or receive blood points from a totem.

The killer can also wound a survivor they share a space with. Once wounded, a survivor can be sacrificed if there is a hook in their space. This gives the killer a sacrifice