Let's Count Down The Best Games Like Dead by Daylight
Co-op games are great. But what’s better than teamwork among friends?
Hunting down each member of your team, one by one, and tearing them to shreds, that’s what.
Dead by Daylight already has an exciting array of psychopaths lined up to eviscerate players, but if that’s not enough for the discerning killer, here’s a list of games with similar mechanics.
10. Deceit
Deceit Gameplay
Deceit - I love a succinct, descriptive title. Deceit is a game that has its unique selling point right there in the title.
Play as one of several human doofuses running around an environment. About a third of the doofuses are infected with an ultra spooky disease.
When the lights go out in the arena, the infected get a chance to terrify the terrified uninfected ofter they undergo a terrifying transformation into a monster known as a “terror”.
The gag here is that the infected players have to keep up a charade when the lights are on - you have to interact with your team in such a way that they don’t uncover that you’re one of the terrifying…terrors stalking the dark.
Cracking open a warm one with the boys.
Are you my next target?
9. Hide or Die
Hide or Die gameplay
Light or Dark. Good or Evil. Cat or Dog. Hide or Die. In this asymmetric horror title, 16 players are pitted against each other and their own dark temptations.
Everyone starts out in an unfamiliar environment with the goal of surviving the night.
A mysterious force known only as “the Darkness” offers players immense power at the cost of becoming a raving, homicidal lunatic.
Should a player seek out this power or be otherwise overtaken by the Darkness, their objective becomes to kill as many other players as they can.
The Darkness can make hunters out of the hunted.
Is is safe there?
8. Friday the 13th
Friday The 13th Gameplay
Choose sides in a battle between a cadre of camp counselors and, the undying icon himself, Jason.
One team represents everything repellent and evil about the human psyche, the other is made up of quite guy in a ski mask.
The counselor characters cover a variety of slasher movie stereo types; preppy, slutty, athletic, nerdy. A Breakfast Club buffet ripe for the slashing; drench dozens of letterman jackets in blood.
Spend a few rounds running and tripping through the woods then throw on that iconic ski mask and take on the role of Jason.
Friday the 13th is basically the same as Dead by Daylight but any hardcore fans of the intellectual property spawned by the iconic slasher series should check it out.
If for no other reason than to finally know what it feels like to be on the other end of the machete.
It’s a throwback-fashion roundup!
Remember to recycle your jocks.
7. Last Year
Last Year Trailer
The 1990s were a golden age for slasher horror. Movie audiences Scream(ed) then they Scream(ed) 2.
Last Year seeks to take us to that simpler time when all you needed to start a massacre was a group of generic teens on a Halloween night.
Killers playing Last Year have access to a sort of omnipresent mode in which they can move across the map at high speeds while totally invisible.
This gives them the chance to set up the perfect, cinematic ambush. Toy with the heads of the teen team by using trap doors to separate them and traps to paralyze them, then move in for the slash.
Prepare yourself for some good, clean, public school fun.
He is angry........ very angry..
6. White Noise
White Noise 2 Gameplay
Reality is fractured, the veil between our world and the others has been torn asunder.
A group of investigators seek to mend the rift between universes while an infernal otherworlder seeks rip both the team and the astral barriers apart.
White Noise 2 uses dark and light very effectively; darkness cloaks the monster stalking the team while light is the investigators’ only weapon against the monster.
Work with a satisfying variety of teammates, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, to find 8 clues that will banish the monster forever while the supernatural interloper stalks the dark and picks player off.
Date night with Lilith.
uhmmmm...BEHIND YOU!!!
5. Identity V (Android Mobile Game)
Identity V Gameplay
A detective weathers away a stormy night in an abandoned mansion. There he encounters clues that paint a disturbing picture of past events that took place on the grounds - presumably. I don’t really know.
The story isn’t what’s important here. What is important is that you have a long commute on the train, or an indeterminate period of time to wait at the parole office, or a Thanksgiving dinner at great aunt Pattie’s house - whatever it is, it’s boring and you would rather spend the time butchering the online avatars of friends and strangers.
That’s where Identity V comes in. It’s an asymmetric slash fest in a mobile package.
Kids with buttons for eyes are creepy - what an entirely original concept!
Fire Fire FIre Fire, Kill them all..
4. Depth
Depth Gameplay
Humans and nature battle it out in this little game about a group of friends with dreams of making it big in the exciting world of underwater treasure salvaging.
The only thing between our team of would-be archaeologists is a set of fins and maw of teeth. It’s diver vs shark!
Armed with a spear gun, plumb the bowls of the ocean for gold and trinkets as a diver and coordinate with your team to stay alive long enough to spend those doubloons.
Or take on the role of the shark - a creature with no agenda in particular. Just eat them.
Remember, sharks are often more afraid of you than you are of them.
Man He Do not stop.
3. Crawl
Crawl Gameplay
Your friends are parasites, always on the lookout for ways to ensure your downfall.
No, I’m not providing an unsolicited judgement of your social circle. I’m describing the game mechanics of Crawl!
In this 3v1 game, one player is an aspiring hero scouring the depth of some nondescript dungeon for some arcane power or another.
The other three players are every ghost, goblin, gorgon and trap that stand guarding said non-specified prize.
Should a player fall to the minions of darkness, whichever player it was that took them down will take their place in the world of the living and have a chance at gaining the dungeon’s prize.
A hero never leaves home without their magic-burning-hand-knives.
Kill The Dragon.
2. Left 4 Dead 2 (Versus Mode)
Left 4 Dead 2 Gameplay
“Left 4 Dead 2” - a title perfectly balanced between words and numbers.
The game features a versus mode that, like the title, features two perfectly balanced teams. Unlike the title however, the teams are divided based on infection status; survivors of the zombie plague vs those who’ve already fallen to it.
Left 4 Dead 2 is a classic title that most gamers have played at least once. What’s nice about the sequel, is this opportunity to play as the dead special infected zombies - much more interesting than playing as the survivors if somewhat more disgusting.
Friend or foe? It can be so difficult to tell at times.
Just Run, or kill him, or quit...
1. Hunt Showdown
Hunt Showdown Gameplay
Head on down to the the Louisiana bayou, ya’ll.
We done got us a mess of hellish creatures runnin’ around and somebody’s gotta take care of ‘em.
Hunt Showdown Puts players in the role of a supernatural bounty hunter. Prowl the swamps for unnatural horrors and take ‘em out.
Be careful though. You’re not the only hunter around these parts and this here swamp just may not be big enough for all of you.
Other hunters may prove to be more deadly than the monster that brought you all here in the first place.
The work environment is hostile. The pay is inconsistent at best. The benefits are nonexistent. No need to worry about saving for retirement though.
Are they fishing or something?
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