How to play
DBDLE is a daily guessing game in the spirit of Wordle and LoLdle, set in the Dead by Daylight universe. Every day you get six independent puzzles, one for each mode. The answer is the same for everyone that day, and everything resets at your local midnight, so you start fresh each morning. There is no game over: guesses are unlimited, and your score is simply how many tries it took you. The fewer, the better.
The basics, shared by every mode
You play by typing a name into the search bar, which autocompletes as you type so you never have to spell anything perfectly. After each guess, the game gives you feedback and gets you closer to the answer. When you win, you can share your result as an emoji grid and keep your daily streak alive. You can also replay any past day from the archive.
Killer
Guess the killer of the day, and a grid compares seven of their attributes to your guess:
- Gender and Height: green means an exact match, red means different. Origin and Power type can also turn orange: an orange Origin means a killer licensed from a different franchise; an orange Power type means the same broad family but a different sub-archetype.
- Movement speed, Terror radius and Release year: these show green for a match, plus an up or down arrow telling you whether the hidden killer's value is higher or lower than your guess.
By reading the colors and arrows across a few guesses, you can narrow the roster down to the right killer.
Silhouette
A full-body killer render starts as a dark, heavily blurred shadow. Every wrong guess lifts the blur and the darkness step by step, until the killer becomes clear.
Power
One killer's power icon is hidden behind a grid of 16 tiles. Each wrong guess drops a few tiles, uncovering a sharp fragment of the icon until you can recognize whose power it is.
Survivor
A survivor portrait starts as a dark, heavily blurred shadow. Every wrong guess lifts the blur and the darkness step by step, until the survivor becomes recognizable.
Perk
One survivor's signature perk icon is hidden behind a grid of 16 tiles. Each wrong guess drops a few tiles, revealing more of the icon until you can tell which survivor it belongs to.
Map
Guess the map of the day from a close-up image. Each wrong guess zooms the image out a little more, revealing new details and landmarks until the location becomes recognizable.
Streaks and stats
Solving at least one puzzle a day keeps your streak going. The streak is shared across all six modes and shown on the home page, along with your daily progress. Each mode also keeps its own stats and a distribution of how many tries your wins usually take.
That is everything you need. Pick a mode, make your first guess, and see how few tries it takes you today.