Dead by Daylight’s Castlevania crossover is here

polygon.com:

Dead by Daylight’s latest crossover, which brings Castlevania’s Dracula and Trevor Belmont to Behaviour Interactive’s multiplayer survival game, is here and now playable in the public test build on Steam. Dead by Daylight’s Castlevania chapter will go live officially on Aug. 27, Behaviour announced Tuesday.

Dracula is not only Dead by Daylight’s first shapeshifting Killer, he’s (somehow) the survival game’s first vampire. The count of Castlevania can conjure flames to burn his prey while in vampire form, and in his bat form, can stalk Survivors quietly and cover ground quickly. Dracula can also take the form of a wolf, hunting Survivors by their scent.

In a major flex, Dracula is also bringing his whole damn castle with him to Dead by Daylight. Whenever Dracula is the featured Killer in a game set on an original Dead by Daylight map, players will see his iconic castle looming over the horizon. (That means you won’t see Drac’s digs on licensed maps like the ones set in Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Ruins or Alien’s Nostromo wreckage.)

On the opposing side of Dead by Daylight’s asymmetrical multiplayer format is new Survivor Trevor Belmont. Behaviour says that Trevor’s skill set includes “an innate ability to seek out allies and work as part of a team” and unspecified but “unmatched skills as a vampire hunter.” Trevor was first introduced to Konami’s Castlevania franchise with 1989’s Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse, and the character has appeared in subsequent games Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Castlevania Judgment.

Konami’s collaboration with Dead by Daylight is part of a somewhat recent trend for the company of loaning out its characters and intellectual property — particularly to games inspired by Konami’s most famous franchise. Castlevania downloadable content has been released for action role-playing survival game V Rising and action roguelike Dead Cells. Contra DLC was recently released for Vampire Survivors. And in 2020, Konami’s Silent Hill franchise