Horror in dead by daylight?

There are horror themes and influences, but this game isn't exactly scary after your first two or three games as Survivor.

The reason this happens, at least IMO, is because most Killers are very predictable and avoidable.

The Terror Radius, the Red Stain, looping, aura-reading perks, and being able to see the status of your fellow Survivors all make the game much less tense because they give you information.

It is easy to tell when a Killer is near, where they are going, and what they are doing. As a Survivor you have a lot of information available to you if you know how to look for it.

The scariest Killers are those that deny this information: Michael Myers and The Spirit with other Stealth Killers to a lesser existent.

In general, denying information can make people uncertain and nervous because they aren't sure what the right course of action is.

The reason Scratched Mirror Michael is scary on Léry's is because you are denied information and uncertain how to react: he could be watching you or he could be on the other side of the map and you wouldn't know.

If we were going to turn DBD into a more tense and horrific you'd want to make it so Survivors have much more limited information available to them.

Things like making the map darker for Survivors so they can't see very well, removing their ability to see other Survivor's health states and force them to listen for screams to know if someone has been hooked, removing the Killer's Terror Radius and Red Stain so they can approach unseen unless the Survivor is aware of their surroundings, and getting rid of a Survivor's Survivor and Killer aura reading perks.

Now that won't happen, and I don't think it should outside of a new game mode, because Survivors are used to their information and the game is balanced around it. Survivors would riot if so many of their survival tools vanished and unless Killers were significantly nerfed they'd become frustratingly overpowered for solo Survivors.

**TL;DR - By and large, DBD isn't scary and to be scary it would need a major rework of it's central game mechanics.**

I don't know why, but in the few games I had play as survivor, I was always afraid to face the pig. For a unknown reason, I fear most that crouching girl.

But no... I had never meet a pig. Instead a ton of meyers, huntresses, billys and a few nurses far I remember.

So, with luck I have avoid everything in the game that could possible give me the willies^^.

Horror was the original theme when the game first launched. Now the game is more about License characters and neon cosmetics. Horror has been pushed out in terms of actual "fear" or "scare" and is used as decoration.

I'd rather go back to a scary DBD game, however as you play something and get familiar with it that fear will always be pulled away.

Alien Isolation - I know the AI programming by heart now thus the alien has no effect.

Resident Evil (any really) - I have played them so much I can pretty much dance around the zombies and infected.

Anthem - I have played too many EA games to know my money was wasted.

You eventually lose any sort of horror theme over time regardless of developer changes.

Absolutely nothing is scary after you spend 100+ hours playing, and if it is, it'll sorely lack in other aspects to keep people coming back.

The action aspects are what keeps the playerbase alive in this game. People come for the horror and stay for the action.

At least for me, it is impossible to feel scared in a game knowing you are against another players who’s controlling the killer. It’s just a totally different mindset, as opposed to playing like Resident Evil or Outlast. I can get pretty scared in those types of horror games. The mindset in DBD though is more competitive since you’re against an actual person, it’s just not the same at all. There’s nothing they could do in this game to make me feel actual horror.