So why is the game called dead by daylight?

thepyramidhead

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

TheClownIsKing

It’s implying that the survivors won’t survive the night.

So they’ll be “Dead by” the time “Daylight” arrives.

Squirrel_Thicc

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

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

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

Justalittlepeeck

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

It sounded better than ‘Running from Hookers’.

Heartbound

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

Bagged by Survivors

MadLordJack

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.