The horror game Dead by Daylight is coming up on its 10th anniversary, and with the milestone on the horizon, developer Behaviour Interactive has told fans there are no plans for a numbered sequel. Dead by Daylight is a live-service game, and while the team did consider a sequel or some kind of new version of Dead by Daylight over the years, it never made sense to actually do it.
Creative director Dave Richard told IGN that fans have invested time and money into Dead by Daylight, and launching a sequel “never makes sense for the fans. Never ever.”
Head of partnerships Mathieu Cote, meanwhile, said Behaviour wants to bring Dead by Daylight “kicking and screaming” into the next decade of its existence.
“We’re not going to do a DBD 2, that’s for sure. They’re not going to have to buy a DBD 2 and restart from scratch. But we understand that the game is 10 years old, and that’s a long time in video game years,” he explained. “And we want people that start today, tomorrow, next year, to feel like they’re playing a game that is current. It’s not a nostalgia token, it’s a real game that you can play today and that makes sense.”
This way of thinking lines up with what Microsoft has said about a possible Minecraft sequel, saying developer Mojang will continue to update the main game instead of pushing out a numbered sequel.
While Behaviour may not make a Dead by Daylight sequel anytime soon, or ever, the studio is thinking about how to do a “graphical rework” to leverage new hardware, like the upcoming Projext Helix Xbox console or the PlayStation 6. At the same time, though, some players could get left behind in this scenario.
Richard said, “Who do we leave behind? Yeah. And is that something we’re willing to do? Can these people update and follow us? And it depends on the area of the world as well, right?”
Some people may be unwilling or unable to upgrade to new, more powerful, and more expensive hardware, especially today with the AI race driving up prices for graphics cards and memory, Richard said. “So, it’s interesting, but it’s more of a challenge than it’s interesting for us at this time,” he explained.
In other Dead by Daylight news, the company recently said it had nothing to do with the recent heist of 12 tons of KitKats.
