Dead by Daylight's active, live-service development produces themed content that quickly transitions to meet each festive occasion. Dead by Daylight's prolific holiday events are popular among players for their exclusive items, cosmetics, and in-game decorations that adorn generators, hooks, and other environments for the respective season.
For example, Dead by Daylight players may remember the infamous Dwelf, a cosmetic for the survivor Dwight wearing an elf costume, that has become a Christmas holiday icon and mascot for the game since its inception. But despite Dead by Daylight's newest chapter and associated killer, survivor, and map having launched yesterday, December is already upon players and Behaviour Interactive is prepared to release related, themed content.
Dead by Daylight, which has been subsumed as the Christmas-themed "Dwelf by Daylight," shares a full month calendar that schedules free daily log-in rewards between today, December 1, and January 5. Dead by Daylight's Season of Giving primarily offers a handful of Bloodpoints for each daily reward, though there are intermittent batches of Rift Fragments and Iridescent Shards every second or third day as well. Particularly festive days, such as Christmas Day and New Years Day, however, offer more significant rewards as a celebration.
The Season of Giving's incentive is to log-in each day of the season, and it may hopefully provide players with Dead by Daylight's much-requested Bloodpoints following the recently concluded Bloodhunt weekend. While the rewards do not necessarily amount to anything monumental after a little more than a month compared to what players can earn from regular Trials and Tomes, it is still a fun way to engage with players and present a free advent calendar of sorts.
Likewise, another Christmas-themed Dead by Daylight event has been announced with the Bone Chill event. Bone Chill will be a shorter event, stretched between December 9 and December 23, and will likely feature exclusive items similar to Dead by Daylight's other holiday events that fit the season's atmosphere. Ugly Sweater cosmetics will return during the event as a featured "Winter Cosmetic," as well as "a few never-before-seen in-game surprises to discover."
Not much else has been detailed about Dead by Daylight's Bone Chill event, but more information is set to drop on December 9 when it releases. Until then, players can start receiving Season of Giving advent calendar rewards today.
Dead by Daylight is available for Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.