Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dread (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dread

When the dusk turns full dark, it comes. Dead by Daylight’s Roots of Dread Chapter features a new Killer – The Dredge – and a new Survivor, Haddie Kaur. A new map, the disturbing Garden of Joy, is available…

55 7 June 2022

What Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dread is

Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dread was released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

When the dusk turns full dark, it comes. Dead by Daylight’s Roots of Dread Chapter features a new Killer – The Dredge – and a new Survivor, Haddie Kaur. A new map, the disturbing Garden of Joy, is available for all players.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dread holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 19 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dread launched on 7 June 2022, within three weeks of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White and The Quarry. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 9 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White, The Quarry.

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