NieR:Automata's 2B & A2 Survive the Night in Dead by Daylight Collaboration
Behaviour Interactive, creators of the asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror video game Dead by Daylight, launched a collaboration with the popular video game NieR:Automata on Tuesday. The staff first teased on Saturday, "The fight for humanity continues in The Fog," and then posted a promotional video:
The collaboration's “Legendary Outfits” include a 2B costume for Feng Min and A2 costume for Yui Kimura. Killer players will receive a Very Rare Outfit inspired by Emil for The Legion.
Dead by Daylight is no stranger to collaborations with anime and manga. In July 2022, the game partnered with popular anime series Attack on Titan for a set of player cosmetics. The game also had two anime related collaborations in early 2025 with manga creator Junji Ito that January and popular horror anime series Tokyo Ghoul that March.
Dead by Daylight is an asymmetric multiplayer game where one player takes control of a savage killer, who hunts down four other non-killer players in a killing ground. The goal of the non-killer players is to escape the killing ground. The game is well-known for featuring a wide cast of killers from other media franchises including Silent Hill, Halloween, Stranger Things, and many others. The game launched in June 2016 for PlayStation 4 and for the Xbox One in 2017. It was ported to Nintendo Switch in 2019, and PlayStation 5, Stadia, and Xbox Series X|S in 2020.
The NieR:Automata game shipped for PlayStation 4 in Japan in February 2017, followed by North America and Europe in March 2017. Square Enix also released the game on PC via Steam in March 2017, and on Xbox One in June 2018. The game launched on Switch in October 2022.
The game inspired a television anime NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a, which premiered in January 2023. The second cours (quarter of year) premiered in July 2024. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.
Sources: Press release, Dead by Daylight game's X/Twitter account and YouTube channel
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