I love it when I'm repairing a gen or breaking a totem and I start to hear the heartbeat, then a couple seconds later a gen pops and the heartbeat slowly fades away 

@TheMidnightRidr , I came from Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm. Toxicity is everywhere. I don't let the little kiddies bother me. I'm too damned old for that.

No other game lets me run around as Myers, Freddy, or Leatherface and hunt people. The three Icons I grew-up on as a kid. That's why I like DBD.

Rank! People say. Nah, I don't care about Rank. I cared about rank in Overwatch and came to hate logging into it anymore. DBD is all about having some Slasher Movie Killer Icon fun. Nothing more.

As someone who hates pvp with a burning passion, it's weird I like this game since all it is is pvp.

Something about being an invincible killer on the hunt, and trying to avoid being found as a survivor helps, i guess.
It's like tag, no change of who is it, and more blood.
It's not like a shooter where someone can get an ideal position and just pin you down. It's not a zerg fest, or respawn fest.

The whole, somewhat simple asymmetrical pvp. 
Having choice of lots of killers,  and survivors that aren't all dudes is nice. The characters are cool.

I have not quite figured out exact reasons. 

I like the whole package! The music, aesthetic, gameplay, lore, community, and characters. This game made me appreciate asymmetrical games. Despite having some serious balance issues, it's still a fun experience that I play daily. 

The devs really did do a pretty good job so far. Thank you @not_Queen, @Pen Spin Academy, and everybody else on the team!

I'm with @Doc_W__HOLLIDAY The main reason I play Dead by Daylight is the horror A E S T H E T I C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkPcPqTq4M) Aside from that I suppose I've always wanted the chance to be the villain in a horror game. It's also a rather open game, so to speak. As a killer, while it may not always end it a 4k, you can do roughly whatever you darn-well-please (except hacking, no hacking). You can slug or camp or be a friendly killer for all the devs care.

So yeah, I like the horror aesthetic, killer playstyle, and the freedom of being a killer.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning

Love the rush it gives me getting away from a killer, or chasing down a tbagging survivor 

Freedom of play style by equipping certain perk builds, unique abilities of killers, licensed killers

I love when I'm playing as killer and survivors make silly mistakes in a panic. Like if they drop the pallet on the wrong side or when you run into a pack of survivors and they scurry like cockroaches and accidentally body block each other. That makes me laugh every time. I like when I'm playing a killer and I get the killer's map. It just feels right. I like when a plan comes together. I like when I chase a survivor and they run into a dead end and they start running around in circles. I like when I blind pick a locker and a survivor just happens to be in it. I love interrupt grabs, especially the hatch.

I posted this on another topic already so yay copy paste!

My favorite thing in this game by far is my interaction with killers. I've made a bunch of killer friends because I message them after a match, simply to laugh and talk about things that happened in that particular game.

I am completely in love with the way the killer vs survivor is divided; it's hard to blame anyone else for one's own failures in DbD. The division of objectives makes it so that you can always work towards those objectives, without worrying about someone preventing you from completing them. Whereas in other games with PvP elements, you usually share objectives, and people find exploitative ways to slow you down, or to completely hinder your progress. But in DbD, say you decide as a killer to pursue someone the entire match, you are foregoing a more important objective, stopping gen progression. No one is responsible for that loss but the killer.

Because of that structure, there are a seemingly endless number of ways a match could go depending on how the killer and survivor behavior. It gives the game enough complexity to try new approaches and new strategies that aren't solely based on things like perks and add-ons, a lot of the fun comes from the high speed strategizing needed to win. Not to mention, this is one of the only games I've played where the balancing occurs at the far ends of the spectrum; the survs are overpowered as a group, but weak as a single unit. As for the killer, it's like the way the survivors behave ultimately determines how powerful the killer is.

I love it when playing as survivor and my team get wrecked. 
Not because we where bad but because the killer was that good, that's when it feels most like I feel the game should be everyone is panicking and the teamwork falls to pieces I love playing against great killers. 

I love the salt from survivors when on the rare chance I do get a 4k and they message me saying camper, cheat, reported etc. Some of the time I do camp if I get a toxic swf group or even just a single toxic survivor. But I don't always camp and they still say camper, reported etc.