Dead by Daylight Player Count Analysis #1 - The Month of July (The Bellweather)
Conclusion: July tends to be a reliable, strong month for Dead by Daylight in terms of Steam player count.
The only exceptions were caused by community reaction to DC penalty rule enforcement (2019), community burnout from the generator kick meta (2022) and game-breaking technical bugs caused by Unreal Engine 5 (2024).
Comments
You can't really talk about abnormalities without mentioning COVID in 2020.
2024 also should mention 2v8.