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Dead by Daylight was released for Windows on the 14th of June 2016 after a closed beta test ended on May 29. The game launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One during 2017 before expanding to Nintendo Switch in 2019.
Behaviour Interactive released Dead by Daylight while Swedish studio Starbreeze Studios published the game until Behaviour bought the rights in 2018. Unreal Engine 4 powered the initial release until April 2024 when the team upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.
Sixty million players had engaged with the game by November 2023. Japan has become one of the biggest markets due to Japanese-themed chapters and expanded lore including an Entity Café that opened on the fourth floor of Tokyo Skytree in August 2021.
Netflix decided not to renew the license for Stranger Things leading to removal of that chapter after the 17th of November 2021 though all content returned on the 6th of November 2023. Boss Protocol released an NFT using Pinhead without Behaviour's involvement causing player backlash in October 2021 before Clive Barker regained rights resulting in full Hellraiser content being removed on the 4th of April 2025.
Dead by Daylight reached thirty-six million players by May 2021 and fifty million by May 2022. The title sold more than 270,000 copies during its first week of availability and reached one million sales within two months.