Dead by Daylight Player Count – How the Game is Doing in 2025

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January 16, 2024

Oscar Rojas

Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer horror game, developed by Behaviour Interactive and published by Starbreeze Studios in June 2016 for Windows, and later for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and mobile devices with Android and iOS systems. The reason for its re-release on all these formats is its huge popularity and high number of players, and that’s just what we’ll be talking about now.

What is the game about and what makes it popular?

The main theme of the game is the confrontation between an assassin and four survivors, who must escape from a closed and trap-filled scenario. The assassin plays in first person and has special abilities, such as speed, invisibility, teleportation or summoning creatures. The survivors, on the other hand, play in the third person and have to cooperate to repair generators, heal themselves, rescue each other and open exit doors.

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One of the things that make this game a favourite of many is the diversity of the avatars, as players can choose from more than 30 characters, some original and others inspired by icons of horror films, such as Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Ghostface, the Demogorgon or Xenomorph. For the killers and characters like Laurie Strode, Steve Harrington, Jill Valentine or Ellen Ripley for the survivors.

In addition, the game has a progression and customisation system, which allows players to unlock and upgrade skills, items, cosmetics and offerings for characters, which makes everything even more interesting.

How many Dead by Daylight players are there?

According to statistics, the game had a breakthrough in 2023, reaching a total DBD player count of 50 million players on Steam, with up to 40,000 players playing consecutively every day. Proving just how popular it is, which is no surprise considering all the awards and nominations the game has won such as the acclaimed Golden Joystick Award for best multiplayer game they received in 2018.

Top countries playing Dead by Daylight

Globally, the countries with the highest number of Dead by Daylight players are the United States, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain, as these are the countries with the most sales and servers on Steam, with special mentions to Latin American countries such as Argentina and Brazil, who lead the statistics in that continent.

DBD Streaming

Now, if we talk about popularity, it is impossible not to mention the topic of streamers, those players who share their games with thousands of viewers through YouTube or Twitch, among the most prominent are:

Skermz
Otzdarva
AgustinUnaplay8

These streamers, and many others like Monto and Ayrun who also focus on this game, are the ones who drive the popularity of Dead by Daylight, so if the streamer is Spanish, you know that many Spanish people will play the game.

To Sum Up

Although this game has a horror focus and is, therefore, less desirable than adventure games, in this case, this does not seem to be a limiting factor for its popularity considering the large number of players they have around the world, all thanks to the freedom they give players to create their nightmare and defeat it.