When comparing SpyParty [Early Access beta] vs Dead by Daylight, the Slant community recommends Dead by Daylight for most people. In the question“What are the best PC multiplayer games with asymmetric gameplay?” Dead by Daylight is ranked 5th while SpyParty [Early Access beta] is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Dead by Daylight is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Intense stealth gameplay
In SpyParty one player plays as a spy that needs to blend into a party full of NPCs, while trying to steal valuable documents. The other player plays as a sniper who has to figure out which person is the spy, and take their shot.
Pro Online two player
The gameplay is cat and mouse where one player is a sniper and the other is a secret agent. To pull this off the game is basically online vs two player.
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 Slow development
SPyParty is still in an open beta, something that it seems to have been stuck in for a while.
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.