Useless by Daylight’s newest crossover, which brings Castlevania’s Dracula and Trevor Belmont to Behaviour Interactive’s multiplayer survival sport, is right here and now playable within the public take a look at construct on Steam. Useless by Daylight’s Castlevania chapter will go reside formally on Aug. 27, Behaviour introduced Tuesday.
Dracula shouldn’t be solely Useless by Daylight’s first shapeshifting Killer, he’s (by some means) the survival sport’s first vampire. The rely of Castlevania can conjure flames to burn his prey whereas in vampire type, and in his bat type, can stalk Survivors quietly and canopy floor shortly. Dracula may also take the type of a wolf, searching Survivors by their scent.
In a serious flex, Dracula can be bringing his complete rattling citadel with him to Useless by Daylight. At any time when Dracula is the featured Killer in a sport set on an unique Useless by Daylight map, gamers will see his iconic citadel looming over the horizon. (Meaning you gained’t see Drac’s digs on licensed maps like those set in Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Ruins or Alien’s Nostromo wreckage.)
On the opposing facet of Useless by Daylight’s asymmetrical multiplayer format is new Survivor Trevor Belmont. Behaviour says that Trevor’s talent set consists of “an innate skill to hunt out allies and work as a part of a workforce” and unspecified however “unmatched abilities as a vampire hunter.” Trevor was first launched to Konami’s Castlevania franchise with 1989’s Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse, and the character has appeared in subsequent video games Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Castlevania Judgment.
Konami’s collaboration with Useless by Daylight is a part of a considerably current pattern for the corporate of loaning out its characters and mental property — significantly to video games impressed by Konami’s most well-known franchise. Castlevania downloadable content material has been launched for motion role-playing survival sport V Rising and motion roguelike Useless Cells. Contra DLC was just lately launched for Vampire Survivors. And in 2020, Konami’s Silent Hill franchise crossed over with Useless by Daylight, with Heather Mason and Pyramid Hill becoming a member of the roster of playable Survivors and Killers.
Useless by Daylight is obtainable now on Android, iOS, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X.