Summary
For seven years now,Dead By Daylighthas had a monopoly on the asymmetrical multiplayer game market. A game that sees a team of four survivors go up against one killer,Dead By Daylightis an extremely simple title on the surface, but a fairly complicated one to master, with plenty of perks, characters, and maps for players to get their head around. And while there have been plenty of competitors over the last few years, likeEvil Dead,Friday the 13th, andGhostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, none have managed to knockDead By Daylightfrom its pedestal. But that might be about to change.
Texas Chain Saw Massacreis set to release on August 18, and it has quite the buzz surrounding it. Though it’s anotherasymmetrical horror multiplayer game,Texas Chain Saw Massacreis setting itself apart fromDead By Daylightin a number of ways, and if the recent reviews are anything to go by, these differences make the game one to watch out for, definitely for any fans looking to try something familiar but fresh.
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By far the biggest difference betweenDead By DaylightandTexas Chain Saw Massacreis the game’s number of killers. WhileDead By Daylightpits four survivors against just one all-powerful killer,Texas Chain Saw Massacreputs a team of four survivors against a team of three killers. Naturally, this means thatTexas Chain Saw Massacrehas balanced its teams quite differently fromDead By Daylight.Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s killers are a little less effective than those inDead By Daylight, making teamwork a surprisingly big focus of the competitor.
Each one ofTexas Chain Saw Massacre’s five killershas a unique ability and their own set of strengths and weaknesses. Players will need to communicate with their killer teammates in order to use these abilities most effectively, otherwise, the survivors can gain the upper hand quite easily. For instance, The Cook’s special ability is Seek, which allows him to listen through walls and pinpoint the location of a survivor. While this ability is fairly useful on its own, it becomes truly powerful when paired with someone like Leatherface, who can use his Maim ability to severely injure the targeted survivor. The Family also need to work together to harvest blood from their victims and bring it back to Grandpa in order to locate the survivors more easily.
Much likeDead By Daylight,Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s survivors will also have to use teamwork to succeed, but unlikeDead By Daylight, they have some powerful abilities of their own. Each survivor inTexas Chain Saw Massacrealso has a special active ability, ranging from the ability to shoulder charge into a killer to briefly stun them to pick a lock much faster. WhileDead By Daylight’s survivorsget perks that grant buffs and bonuses,Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s active survivor abilities put a lot more of the action in players' hands.
Another big difference betweenDead By DaylightandTexas Chain Saw Massacreis the latter’s several different ways to escape. InDead By Daylight, survivors can only escape as a group by powering up a series of generators and leaving by way of one of two big gates on the edges of the map. Each map ofTexas Chain Saw Massacrehas at least four different ways for the survivors to escape. After starting in the basement, survivors need to make their way to one of the map’s exits, with each one posing a handful of unique obstacles and challenges from electrified fences that need to be shut-off, to doors that need to be pick-locked. This should hopefully add quite a bit of replayability toTexas Chain Saw Massacre, and help it to stand out fromDead By Daylight.
Dead by Daylightis currently available for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
