Dead by Daylight Devs' Most-Wanted Killers Include The Thing and Cujo

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s is yet coming to Dead by Daylight, but developer Behaviour Interactive inactive has a coagulated database of fearfulness icons it wants to adhd to its collection.

The squad down the fashionable asymmetrical fearfulness acquisition spoke astir its hopes and dreams during a speech with IGN. As you mightiness person guessed, the workplace is ever reasoning astir the adjacent Killers and Survivors it tin adhd to its lineup. What you mightiness not know, though, is that immoderate members of the squad person their sights acceptable connected circumstantial names.

Killer Designer and fearfulness aficionado Jason Guzzo has helped bring infamous Killers, specified arsenic Chucky, Dracula, and Springtrap, into the Entity’s satellite successful the past. Any crossover marks an important infinitesimal for Behaviour and its fans, but Guzzo says the 1 franchise he’d crook implicit backward to marque hap is The Thing.

“As acold arsenic I know, it’s not thing that is being discussed supra me, but my imagination – and astir apt my favourite fearfulness movie – is the evident one: The Thing,” Guzzo said. “I would emotion to get The Thing into [Dead by Daylight]. I person been present for 2 and a fractional years, and I person been connected a crusade to fig retired however to get The Thing into Dead by Daylight.”

Guzzo reiterates that his tendency to enactment connected a The Thing Chapter isn’t a hint astatine what’s to come, and determination are a fewer factors that mightiness support specified a collaboration from ever materializing. He acknowledges the “potential plan problems” that travel on with creating a playable video crippled mentation of what is fundamentally a analyzable mimic murderer. That said, it’s inactive the 1 bid helium is “on a crusade to get done astatine immoderate point.”

Dead by Daylight Creative Director Dave Richard, meanwhile, points retired that conversations astir imagination Killers are thing caller for the Behaviour team. While a sanction similar Pennywise comes up arsenic 1 villain helium feels would “be amazing,” Richard doesn’t privation to halt there.

“There are different kings of fearfulness that would beryllium astonishing to have,” Richard tells us. “You could conjecture immoderate 1 of them, I’m thinking. Frankly, I conscionable privation to cod them all.”

There are evidently galore monsters who person yet to look successful Dead by Daylight, but immoderate of the not-so-obvious names person travel up successful discussions, too.

“The different ones that we ever share, too,” Richard added, “they could beryllium mostly a joke, but I deliberation there’s a mode to marque it work, particularly present successful the timeline: Cujo. Christine.”

Cujo, of course, is the titular rabid canine from Stephen King’s caller and its 1983 movie adaptation. A canine Killer would beryllium rather retired of quality for a crippled that chiefly features quality characters similar Ghost Face and Michael Myers, but it’s not precisely impossible. Richard’s notation to King’s Christine, meanwhile, would spot a slayer car articulation the roster if Behaviour could ever fig retired however to marque it work.

If 1 happening is for sure, it’s that Dead by Daylight is showing nary signs of slowing down arsenic its barrels toward its ninth anniversary. The Five Nights astatine Freddy’s Chapter volition officially motorboat travel June 17, adding Springtrap and a pizzeria representation into the fold. For much connected however the asymmetrical fearfulness acquisition is growing, you tin work our afloat interrogation with Guzzo and Richard.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance contributor with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).