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So why is the game called dead by daylight?

This is a question for fun, I always wondered why it was called dead by daylight. Any suggestions why?

Comments

  • Squirrel_Thicc
    Squirrel_Thicc Member Posts: 2,677

    This game should be called "scary bad killer kill good survivor survive until daylight or die from bad killer survive the night do the gen kill the people 2020".

  • timbologna
    timbologna Member Posts: 348

    I've always thought of Evil Dead and the "dead by dawn" scene https://www.youtube(dot)com/watch?v=y9se1XPD48c

    Not spam. A legitimately good horror link. I always found it creepy.

  • RepostRiposte
    RepostRiposte Member Posts: 793

    They didn't expect the game to last very long I guess

  • Justalittlepeeck
    Justalittlepeeck Member Posts: 1,101

    Because survivors will die by daylight and since the sun will never rise, they will be dying forever. They will never reach the truth death

    (and to people saying that saloon has sunrise, it's much more likely to be a sunset).

  • Ghouled_Mojo
    Ghouled_Mojo Member Posts: 2,287

    It sounded better than ‘Running from Hookers’.

  • Heartbound
    Heartbound Member Posts: 3,255
    You know this is kind of a loosely related tangent but I think the creator/original concept guy was French.  So at some point he must have been like,  Morte de Lumière du jour
    
    Also my text has entered the twilight zone.  I'm not going to fix it.
    


  • C3Tooth
    C3Tooth Member Posts: 8,266

    Bagged by Survivors

  • MadLordJack
    MadLordJack Member Posts: 8,814

    Because it sounds edgy and cool. Given that it makes no sense when you reed more than 5 minutes into the lore, it was probably a working title that sounded too cool to change.