Behaviour Interactive has announced two new spin-off games for asymmetrical horror gameDead by Daylight. Supermassive Games and Midwinter Entertainment are both working on spin-off projects within theDead by Daylightuniverse.
Announced today during theDead by Daylight7th Anniversary stream, we’ve got a few details about what each team is working on. Here’s the relevant section of today’s stream, viaGematsu:
Supermassive Games, well-known for titles likeUntil DawnandThe Quarry, is making what you’d expect: an “intense, narrative” game with life-or-death choices, set in the omniverse ofDead by Daylight. It will have a new cast of characters, too. It seems like a pretty natural fit, as Supermassive’s games have consistently tackled the horror genre from various angles, andDead by Daylightis all about its horror lineage too.
Meanwhile, Midwinter Entertainment is taking a bit of a different approach. You might know Midwinter from multiplayer survival shooterScavengers, whichshut down last December. Behaviour picked the team up inMayprior to that. Midwinter is working on a new multiplayer PvE game, where teams of up to four players take on a new danger, centered around greed and the lust for power.
Neither game got a title or release date.
A new daylight dawns
It’s an interesting but intriguing development forDead by Daylight. I’ll admit, I tend to associateDead by Daylightmore with cross-overs than spin-offs. But the horror game has become pretty popular, even popular enough to spin off one game already in its dating simHooked on You.
For continued expansion of the universe, you could do worse than getting a studio like Supermassive to work on a single-player horror experience. And I’m curious about Midwinter’s project too, and whether that veers more into a survival-horror realm. We’ll see as the teams share more in the future.
