Steam reviews

Mostly Positive

79% of 897,189 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Mixed reviews

Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.

Where to play

SteamBuy or play TwitchWatch live YouTubeGameplay videos

Horror LiveVery active

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT

Dead by Daylight has 33,594 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 57,079 and its all-time peak is 170,073. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Behaviour Interactive Inc.2016

Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.

Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
Currently at 20% of the all-time peak of 170,073 players.
Last updated 5 months ago: 9.6.2 | Bugfix Patch.

Playing now

33,594

24h peak

57,079

24h change

▼ 4.5%

Quick verdict

Is Dead by Daylight still alive in 2026?

See verdict →

PREVIOUS 24 HOURS

GALLERY & TRAILERS

1 / 7

ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

33.6K

24h peak

57.1K

All-time

170.1K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

12.3K

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.