Dead by Daylight board game just announced

Dunks the minis in a bucket of red paint

“Look, I’m Prestige III!” 😄

FYI Dicebreaker has a full article on the game with a lot more detail

A few notes from the article

• Players have unique abilities and can customize perk loadouts as in the video game
• The standard version has six killers, the collectors edition has 16 (all the original killers through Trickster)
• No licensed content is included
• Standard release has MacMillan Estate and Autohaven Wreckers as maps. Collectors edition has two additional maps. The designers said they went with fewer maps so players could be more familiar with them and to reduce complexity.
• Players use cards to move around the board at different speeds (crouching, running, etc) Like in the video game some paths are one way (e.g. falling from the second floor of a building) or initially blocked (e.g. breakable walls).
• Rooms have props that let players do things, like the gens that need to be repaired or items for survivors or actions for killers like damaging gens. Unlike the video game you can’t sit in one spot and do an action over and over, you have to move in order to keep using the props.
• Gen repairs are dice rolls, and on a 1 the killer gets bloodpoints to power up their abilities
• The survivors fully win or lose as a team. (Good move on the designer’s part, semi-cooperative games are typically pretty broken. I really like the video game but the devs not making it clearly be the survivors as a team with a clear win condition really is the root of a lot of the complaints I see about it.)
• Killers try to move into spaces with survivors to down and capture them and carry them to hooks. Wiggling free is a dice check based on distance.
• Unlike the video game, no hook is permanent elimination. The survivor misses a turn but is still in the game. (A good choice by the designers, player elimination in board games is usually a bad idea since nobody likes sitting around for an hour watching their friends continue playing.) So no rescues are needed, although losing a turn probably hurts so you still wouldn’t want to get caught.
• No official solo mode unfortunately (too bad, a lot of boardgames nowadays have decent solo modes included)
• Kickstarter launches this month, game will ship and also be in retail in time for Halloween this year.