They're not good enough, Dead by Daylight devs on staying in Steam Top 50

Dead by Daylight still sits in the first 50 slots of the Steam Top Sellers list. It hit its all-time peak of 120,717 players only 9 months ago and keeps momentum despite being a 10-year-old asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer. Head of partnership Mathieu Cote jokes the problem with competitors is "they're not good enough," and creative director Dave Richard adds, "We were there first!" 2022's Evil Dead: The Game and 2023's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre met similar fates: Evil Dead was delisted from storefronts in 2025, and while Texas Chain Saw is still playable, it's no longer receiving updates.

Richard remembers thinking this is a hard space to create games even in 2016. Cote says, "We don't have the vanity to say that we figured everything out. There's a couple of choices we made that, in retrospect, we can see that they were the right choices." He thinks it helps that players can choose their own role in a match—whether a Killer or a member of a team of Survivors—instead of being sorted automatically.

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