What if Dead by Daylight had competition?

Pffffft, an asymmetrical horror survival 5 player play-with-your-friends competitor with just as much impact on the community as dead by daylight? I know it sounds sarcastic. but its impossible for a competitor to come in. Every BIG horror name has already sold out to dbd. I imagine in the contract it says something like, "You can only sell out to our game."

I mean, they are starting to give the game more love with the new graphics overhaul, but other than that the game seems to be not declining, but its definitely not in the best shape it could, especially with the "push out on all devices and leave it at that." (Console Blight)

Last Year and Hide or Die have actually complete different core gameplay than DbD. They share setting and the assymetrical approach, but it didn't have a gameplay loop that worked well enought compared to DbD. The actual direct competitors were Identity V and Souls at Stake technically. The first one started too much as a blant copy and was too mobile focused. The second had worse Graphics and was called chinese Copy way too quick, even though they did their own spin of DbDs core gameplay.

Also Souls at Stake and Last Year weren't handled much worse than DbD.

I can remember, that it was back in 2018 I believe, that DbD was called one of the most interesting games by Japanese devs, I think. Or something like that. That gave me hope that we might see an interesting competitor in the future. I still hope somebody takes inspiration and closer look to the game, because DbD kinda found a formula for asymmetrical gameplay that works. Would be a shame, if it would be the only one.

While they weren't exactly the same (if they shared to many gameplay traits, it'd probably be called a DbD rip-off) they were still asymmetrical, horror themed, multiplayer games.

I remember when the trailer for Last Year was first shown, it was called the DbD killer by someone in the comments. Clearly, it didn't work out that way.

I fully believe DbD could use some healthy competition, but it's the giant in the genre right now. It probably won't get any, unless the game is very interesting.

"in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

Well, BHVR had collaborated with Netease to create Identity V. I wouldn’t say ID5 is more successful than DBD, though due to its child-friendly aesthetics, it has a higher audience.

DbD had competition e.g. Predator, Resident Evil, Friday the 13th etc. All of them had potential, but DbD grew better and stronger.

imo if Turtle Rock Studios continued to develop Evolve, it could of been a strong contender.

Well that would be good for the players and the games health. You always do better when there is pressure on doing so, just like a football player who knows there is a guy on the bench that is really good and just waits for you to perform a bit worse so he can take your place.

First of, the games you listed were the competition. They just did get stomped.

Second, try to find 10 people from both sides that agree how the game should look like and how it should be done.

I think there are a lot of different opinions what changes would be for the better of the game, as you hear complains about every change made so far, while most of them WERE better for the game (aside from the ruin-change i guess that could still be argued about in my opinion).

Competition is always healthy. When there is none, things get stagnant and lazy.

All I'm thinking of is Phasmophobia is way more fun than DBD. Imagine if it were made by more people instead of 1 insanely talented developer! Look at the garbage broken patches BHVR releases with 600 people, compare it to Phasmophobia's creative and unique gameplay.

They are slightly different games (DBD is people vs. people= very toxic, Phasmophobia is cooperative) but I think they're similar enough to compare. If you haven't already, check out Phasmophobia, if you like DBD at all it'll be worth checking out.

last year was far from perfect itself, I had it ont he discord launch and played it for about a couple weeks, the main problem with that game was once people figured out how to constantly tazer the killer and when the devs did some patche speople didn't like and then left the game abandoned in that state until steam a year later when as far as know they probably did the same thing to it over again. theyw eren'tt alking to people on discord after a while, and I heard were even banning people for complaints about the state they left the game in and the lack of communication from them. or maybe it was the discord mods doing the banning, not sure if those were actual devs that were all mods or if any were to be fair. but the lack of communication and the state it was left in were what burnt peoples' interest from my take on it. It was prettyf unt he first few nights though if you found a fun lobby and stayed in it. not too many lobbies seemed to be available though, not sure how many people played it when it first came out.

phas is literally nothing like DBD man. completely different games.

I wish they had actual competition to push them to be better. The whole "these games were competition and they beat them" is not good, it just makes BHVR think that their current practice of "passing it on/looking into it" and pushing out buggy messes is OK. They need a game that is actual competition where neither is "beating" the other but rather pushing eachother to keep putting out a quality product and put plenty of resources into game health to clear up and prevent bugs as well as optimize the older platforms/low end pcs.

"What if Dead By Daylight had competition?"

I ask myself this every time I play killer. Getting real tired of feeling bad for survivors and giving last person hatch each game.

:^)

Dark Deception is pretty close. I mean, they got Monstrum and Yandere Simulator there as well as a single player campaign. Is that good?