Dead by Daylight concurrent players, 2016 to 2026
Dead by Daylight concurrent players stood at 57,800 in 2026, down 18.4% on the previous period.
Dead by Daylight averaged 70,813 concurrent players on Steam in July 2026. The highest monthly average in this window is 71,077 (June 2026); the low is 8,416 (April 2017).
How it is measured
The figures are monthly average concurrent players from SteamCharts: the mean of Steam's public concurrent-player readings across each month. Concurrency is the games industry's standard public audience measure precisely because it is directly observable; total ownership and monthly players are private. An average smooths launch spikes, quiet hours, and downtime into one figure per month, so single-day records sit above every point on this line, and it compares cleanly across games and across time.
What the curve shows
Player curves are product history written in telemetry: launches spike, big updates and sales resurrect, and the decay rate between events measures how sticky the game actually is. The distance between Dead by Daylight's best month of 71,077 and its current 70,813 is the retention story in two numbers.
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