Dead by Daylight Price History: Buy Now or Wait?

Wait for a sale or buy now? For a game already sitting around 90% off its list price, that question sounds academic. It isn't. Our snapshot history for Dead by Daylight shows a real dip and a real bounce inside a single month, so the answer comes down to a few euros and whether you want to gamble on timing.

Prices verified from our live price database on July 10, 2026.

Let me lay out the numbers before drawing any conclusion. Dead by Daylight is an Action title that launched on PC on June 14, 2016. It carries a Metacritic score of 71 and a 79% positive rating across 898,360 Steam reviews, which is the profile of a game that divides people but keeps a huge, committed player base a decade in. That longevity matters for a live-service horror title: the servers are populated, so the cheap entry price buys you into something active, not a ghost town.

The launch-to-now price journey

The list price (RRP) is €69.99, and one store still sits at exactly that: IndieGala lists it at €69.99. Ignore that number for buying purposes. Everywhere else has collapsed far below it. The cheapest buyable copy right now is €6.50 at Gamivo, a keyshop with a trust score of 72/100. That is roughly 91% under the €69.99 list figure, which tells you the RRP is a ceiling nobody pays rather than a real market price.

The interesting story is in the last five weeks, not the last ten years. Here is the tracked snapshot trend.

Those are tracked historical readings, not a guarantee of what you can check out for on any given day.

The sale pattern

Read the shape and it's clean. For most of June the tracked price idled between €6.65 and €7.62, a tight band with no drama. Then around June 24 it fell off a shelf to €3.12 and held there for a week. The tracked low of €2.99 landed on July 1. Within a few days it snapped back to €6.50, where it has sat flat through July 10.

So this was a short, sharp promotional window, not a slow decline. The floor lasted roughly ten days (June 24 to early July) before reverting. That is the pattern to remember: Dead by Daylight spends most of its time in the €6.50 to €7.50 zone and occasionally punches down to the €3 area for a brief burst.

The current €6.50 is €3.51 above that €2.99 tracked low. That gap is the entire size of your "waiting" bet. Note also that €2.99 was a tracked reading, not necessarily a price you can buy at today. The buy box shows €6.50; the €2.99 is history.

Where the live copies actually are

Six stores are tracked, and the bottom of the table is bunched together within cents:

Gamivo is the outright cheapest, but Kinguin (€6.63) and Eneba (€6.64) are within 13 and 14 cents of it while carrying higher trust scores (85 and 80). GameBillet is €1.50 more at €8.00 as an official store with the highest trust of the group (92). For the sake of a euro and a half, that is a legitimate call if you prefer buying an official PC copy over a keyshop key.

Is now a good time to buy?

Here is the math plainly. Buying today costs €6.50. The best tracked price ever recorded was €2.99. If the next dip returns to that exact floor and you catch it, you save €3.51. If it only returns to the €3.12 level that held for most of late June, you save €3.38. That is your maximum realistic upside, and it depends on a sale window that historically lasts about ten days and gives no warning.

Against that, you are already buying at roughly 91% under list. At €6.50 the downside of "paying too much" is a few euros on a game with a near-decade of content and an active player base. If you want to play now, the value case is overwhelming and waiting is a small-stakes gamble. If you genuinely don't mind waiting weeks and setting a price alert, the pattern suggests another sub-€3.50 window will eventually come around, and you'd pocket the difference.

If you're stocking a co-op or crossover-horror shelf, the same tracking logic applies to the licensed builds like the Silent Hill Edition and the Stranger Things Edition, and to a leftfield pick from the same corner of my library, the FMV oddity Not For Broadcast.

Check the live price page before you commit; the €6.50 line has held since July 6, but store prices move and the buy box always shows the current buyable number, not the history.

Diego, Scout Team