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Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer 4vs1 horror game. One player is the killer and the other four are survivors who try to escape the killer.
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GenreSurvival Horror
Co-OpOnline Co-Op/PvP
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Pros
Pro Play solo or in Survive With Friends or Kill Your Friends modes.
Play alone or compose your group of 4 survivors of you and 3 friends. Or play as the killer while you invite 4 friends to try to survive against you.
Pro Choose to play as the survivor or the killer
Cons
Con No dedicated servers
Ping is dependent on the Killer who hosts the game.
Con At low level play, Killers feel overpowered. At high level play, killers are ridiculously under powered.
Con Game is very team dependent
Con Other players can ruin the game
Killers might camp the first person they find, survivors might lure the killer onto other survivors or perform rude actions like taunts and t-bagging toward the killer. Survivors can also hold the game hostage by never leaving even though the win conditions have been met.