If you love action and horror games, you’re in luck, because Dead by Daylight comes to Android for free. It is a complicated genre to take advantage of on mobile phones, but this title has been available for about three years on other platforms, such as consoles or PC.
Maybe at some point you have wondered how the protagonist of a horror movie that is constantly in danger feels. Perhaps quite the opposite: what is the murderer thinking while hunting his victims. With Dead by Daylight you can put yourself in the shoes of both and also, without paying a single euro . You can find it on Google Play and it is compatible with any phone with Android 7.0 Nougat or higher.
The weight of this game is only 58 MB when we download it from the Google app store, but it requires an additional 2 GB file and then an internal 1.6 GB download. Therefore, the total weight ends up being almost 4 GB , so you see freeing up memory on your phone if you have it almost full. This is justified by the graphic quality of the Dead By Daylight, since it is one of the best games in this sense that we have on Android.
At first, we are asked to log in to the game, but the advantage is that we can use some social network such as Google or Facebook to do so. We will also have to add a username, because Dead by Deadlight is a multiplayer, not only on Android, but on any platform. This done, the tutorial will begin. It can be omitted, but just for completing it we will receive rewards , not to mention how necessary it is for new players, as it will teach us how to play on both sides available: survivors and assassins.
The tutorial is very simple and we will have it solved in a few minutes, so it won’t be long before the fun begins.
Playing Dead by Deadlight on Android: tension, a lot of tension
The gameplay of Dead By Deadlight is divided into two parts: that of the survivors and that of the assassin. We can play either way , but this forces us to separate the explanation into two small sections.
Play as a survivor
The first game mode is from a survivor. You are on some kind of farm where a killer is chasing you. Luckily, you are not alone and you are accompanied by three other survivors, who are players like you, no bots. Your mission is to fix a series of electricity generators placed on the map so that you can open the exit door and run away. Not everything is as simple as it may seem, since the assassin will be constantly moving around the map. The controls are easy to master , since we have two virtual joysticks, one on the left to move and one on the right for the camera. In addition to them, there is a permanent button to duck and the actions will be carried out with a pop-up button that appears on the screen.
At the moment we find a generator, the objective is to fix it, for which we will have to press a button at the right time or the repair will fail and we will have to try again. In case we manage to fix the four generators on the map, we can activate the exit switch and thus win the game.
Now this is all the ideal case, but we cannot forget that we are being persecuted. If the killer sees us, he will try to hit us to harm us, which will make us slower and easier to locate. If you hit us a second time, you can grab us and hang us on a hook. We can escape alone, yes, but it is almost impossible and it will be best to wait for another survivor to rescue us.
In case of having received a lot of damage, another player can heal us , just like we can he or she. There are areas where we can hide to avoid being seen or throw objects so they don’t catch us, but the murderer also has his tricks.
Play as an assassin
Unlike the game as a survivor, the killer plays in the first person. The controls are identical, with two virtual motion and camera joysticks and a fixed button. In this case, the fixed button is for hitting, not ducking. It will also serve to break down barriers that survivors have left us while trying to flee.
This character can see where the generators are at all times and will receive a signal if a survivor fails trying to fix one. He is also able to see a trace of red lines on the ground where a survivor has passed without being crouched.
His goal, being the murderer, is for no survivor to escape alive. For this, depending on the killer character we have, there will be special abilities , such as bear traps. If we find a generator running, we can break it to thwart the escape plan. Since when we play as an assassin we compete with four other players, we may miss one but we end up capturing the rest and thus win.
Conclusion
Dead By Daylight is a great game that will keep us tense as we play as survivors and jump into action as assassins. It has practically everything . Being free, we have in-app purchases to unlock new characters, but you can enjoy it without spending anything and unlocking new features with the game.