The dead by daylight board game is kinda boring

trapners

I love the survivors and killers, and the “perks” they can spend bloodpoints on, aswell as the map choices but everything else is confusing, or just overall not needed

The game tutorial was 20 minutes and it was really confusing, i attempted to show my friends it but they literally gave up 5 minutes in because it was just way to much for a board game, the rules,explanation and prop pieces seemed way to excessive, and the 50$ price also kind of sucked, i couldnt watch the video all the way through but i don’t specifically remember getting any rewards from buying the game either.

When I saw the game i expected a monopoly type of game, with 4 players working together and 1 being the “beast” would be really creative, and par on the different maps, powers of killers and perks and it felt amazing. It would be a fresh breeze that you are either working as a team in a board game rather than competing with everyone, and the game even had killer powers so there was so much room for innovation.

Sadly, the game seems cool but the set up is a litte excessive and so is the rulebook

this_aint_h00die

Its a bit unfortunate, there's a Texas chainsaw massacre that follows the four players vs a opposing side, not to bring other stuff in just saying if your interested

trapners

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3832039#Comment_3832039

Looked at it and liked the price difference, only complaint would be how thin the characers were made, if i ever get into that game ill definitely play that.

GannTM

I would recommend just trying the board game without using perks, bloodpoints, and killer powers. The basics aren’t too complicated, it’s just throwing in all the extra stuff that makes it seem overwhelming.

UndeddJester

I am not being dismissive or condescending, but I take you it you are not that familiar with many board games, judging by the fact you use Monopoly as a reference point.

Over the last 10 years there has been a huge board game renaissance with the introduction of kickstarter, board games have expanded greatly and become very ambitious and grand projects…

Quite honestly the DBD board game is at the shallow end of this pool, and is actually a pretty simple game. It may have been complex 30 years ago, but now it's considered rather lightweight.

To try and help:

Set up: -

• Pick characters. Don't bother with perks. Take starting bloodpoints.
• All players get the 4 coloured move cards, killer gets the same with the extra wait card.
• Pick map and place matching coloured tokens face down on each space.
• Roll the black dice for each player and place them in the space that matches the rolled symbol.
• Give someone in survivor side the first turn marker.

Gameplay: -

• Survivors go first and talk out loud their plans. Lying is fine, but no secret comms or codes between survivors, the killer must hear everything straight. Each survivor plays a movement card face down in turn order from the first player.
• Killer plays 2 cards face down.
• Starting with first survivor player reveal card and move along designated line.
• Every time anyone moves to a new tile, reveal a token and interact with a token if desired or heal another survivor. Back of player card tells you what you can do.
• Perks can only be used once per turn.
• After all survivors have gone, killer moves, every time moving to a new tile reveal a token and interact with survivors or tokens, or use power (once per turn). Back of player card tells you what each you can do.
• Killer can only injure a survivor once per turn. (No double tapping).
• Both sides can spend bloodpoints to activate perks at the time indicated by each perk.
• End of round pass first turn marker along, take Entity symbol off any hooks, redraw cards and go again.

Game ends when killer gets all sacrifice tokens or survivors repair all generators and open the gate. Typically lasts an hour.

That is literally all there is to it. Feel free to ask if you have any questions. I'll happily answer in more detail.