Dead by Daylight Mobile 17+

Been following DBD since it first came out and watching it grow over the years has been joyful. I first started off playing on console then when it became available for mobile I immediately started to play on my phone when I’m not at home and I’m very pleased to say that
as it matures it continues to impress. It runs surprisingly well for a mobile game given all of its functions and sweet graphics, sure depending on how much service you get in different areas it can run a bit slower or lag but overall it runs very well even when I only have one bar. The mobile experience is definitely a bit different than on pc or console but that’s what gives it charm and the developers have done a great job adapting the gameplay for mobile use, the only thing I would change thus far is making it so mobile users can still use a bluetooth or corded controller like some mobile games do and adding a restore purchase function if you have bought things in the past.

This version of DBD is awesome. It’s just like the PC/Console versions but now mobile. There are only a few issues thus far. 1) no known controller support, I will test it later, but I don’t see settings for that option. I suppose this definitely levels the field on fairness, though. 2) it keeps saying there’s an issue connecting to a lobby and after waiting over a minute each time, that’s a little frustrating. For many this could be game breaking, so this needs to be addressed ASAP. 3) It has a gacha system, which doesn’t truly effect gameplay at all, and they at least admit it straight to your face that’s it’s gacha because it says so in the title. Everything else seems to be unlocked like normal and fair, but these systems are dumb. It’s not even like other gacha systems where if you spend enough you unlock the items, this one you get 6 cards, and you can only choose 3 of them before they’re shuffled again.

Edit: dropped it to three stars. Honestly it’s pretty laggy. Sometimes it’s great and runs smooth, but sometimes it is pretty awful. I play on an 2022 iPad Pro, so it’s got plenty of power to run the game smoothly. It’s the worst when you’re a killed and it’s already difficult to smack people using a touch screen, and frame drops just make the experience extremely frustrating. It CAN be dope and seem less, but it also CAN be absolutely ridiculous

The game is doing pretty well and I’m glad to see DBD mobile back on the App Store. One of my only complaints is about the Gacha system which wasn’t in the original DBD mobile nor any other console where you can play the game. I was alright cause you could get skins that weren’t already there and were newly made for mobile but my problem came up when you had to pay extra for gachas for skins that you could get with a simple purchase on the other consoles. Like the zoo gacha event that occurred where players had to pay extra for auric cells to be able to use the gacha to get skins that you could get with a simple purchase instead of spending more. I understand that with Netease and IDV5 gacha tied in and their players are used to it but since DBD was never really a gacha game, it just feels like a irritating cash grab to get something that should’ve been way cheaper. Especially with how rigged the system is of getting the same item repeatedly to get one skin and that the chance doesn’t even increase with each attempt. Nobody wants to spend $20+ on the game to get a skin that is probably like $10 on PC and other consoles.

Just keep the gacha system in the sense of limited skins that PC and console doesn’t have and don’t apply it to skins that didn’t have to use gacha to get.