This system should be familiar to anyone who’s played BattleCon, a board game from the same designer.

This, along with the sheer amount of variability in the game box makes Dead By Daylight: The Board Game a winner. Level 99 confirmed to Dicebreaker that no licensed characters will make an appearance in the board game; the video game has seen the inclusion of figures from movies such as Halloween’s Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Kreuger, as well as video games in the form of Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head and Resident Evil’s Jill, Claire, Leon and Chris.

The killer actually had a map of the whole labyrinth that was randomised behind their screen, so they knew where all the props were and such.

Up to four players play as survivors trying to escape a location by powering four generators and finding an exit.Dead by Daylight: The Board Game is due to launch on Kickstarter later this month, adapting the multiplayer survival-horror video game to a one-versus-many board game for three to five players.

The Trapper, Wraith, Nurse, and Doctor are all there to menace the fleeing Survivors, who include Meg, Jake, Feng Min, Claudette, and Dwight. That was something we actually floated and rejected fairly early on: what if we put each chapter in a separate box? Behind Dead by Daylight’s tabletop adaptation is Level 99 Games, the publisher known for its board games heavily inspired by classic video games, including fighting game series Exceed, retro-flavoured Pixel Tactics and fast-paced puzzle game Bullet. But through this all we've developed a really good working relationship with [Dead by Daylight developer] Behaviour. No additional characters will be locked behind stretch goals or separate expansions offered during the crowdfunding campaign, designer D.He joined Dicebreaker as editor-in-chief in 2019, and has been trying to convince the rest of the team to play Diplomacy since.