Dead by Daylight
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Action-focused indie game Dead by Daylight launched in 2016 from Behaviour Interactive Inc, which also publishes it. It has 661,223 Steam reviews with 79% positive sentiment, and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Dead by Daylight is a 2016 Action game developed by Behaviour Interactive Inc. and published by Behaviour Interactive Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 661,669 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Behaviour Interactive Inc. with publisher Behaviour Interactive Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 31.8 million to 74.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dead by Daylight can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
661,669
Positive
79%
Steam appid
381210
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.031.8M to 74.1M
units (median: 52.9M)
≈ $362.6M to $846.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dead by Daylight at roughly 31.8 million to 74.1 million copies, with a median around 52.9 million, derived from its 661,669 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $604.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.21Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.21 to $19.99, averaging $17.95 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.21 on 2026-05-13.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead by Daylight sold?
- indielist estimates Dead by Daylight has sold between 31,760,112 and 74,106,928 units (median 52,933,520), derived from its 661,669 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead by Daylight?
- Dead by Daylight was developed by Behaviour Interactive Inc. and published by Behaviour Interactive Inc..
- When was Dead by Daylight released?
- Dead by Daylight was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Dead by Daylight have on Steam?
- Dead by Daylight has 661,669 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dead by Daylight within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Behaviour Interactive Inc.'s other releases and Behaviour Interactive Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead by Daylight sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dead by Daylight page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.