Overview
- Behaviour announced at its mid‑June 10th anniversary event that it will continue to evolve Dead by Daylight rather than build a numbered sequel and unveiled a multi‑year roadmap for the live service.
- The studio showed early work on a ground‑up visual and animation rebuild aimed for 2027 that will rework character rigs and models, add realistic facial animation, upgrade lighting and fog, and introduce dynamic weather to deepen immersion.
- Behaviour confirmed new gameplay systems are in development, including a competitive best‑of‑three 1v1 mode targeted for early 2027 and a separate Zombie Mode prototype that remains under active design.
- In the near term the company detailed a slate of chapters and collaborations—Jason arriving mid‑June, the Indigenous Survivor chapter The Life Road later this month, Chorus of Sin in August and Terrifier’s Art the Clown in November—while promising sandboxed, controlled modding tools for players roughly next year and a slow rollout of voiceover for legacy Survivors starting late 2026.
- Behaviour also revealed the Dead by Daylight film has a completed screenplay and named Thordur Palsson as director with Jason Blum attached as producer, a move that underlines the studio’s push to expand the franchise beyond the game.