2020: Update
As a veteran player with 3200 hours [Across two accounts], I can safely say that this is quite possibly the funnest game you will ever hate.

I have come to the sad realization that this game will never be what it used to be and fill out the following.

【❌】 A fair, balanced game with equal power play between the two roles.
【❌】 Developers who actually care about the health of the game and its community.
【❌】 Non-sellouts who employed an intoxicating cash-grab aimed at SWF players and victimized Killers.
【❌】 A diverse meta filled with viable options in order to win.
【❌】 Innovative game-play after 5 years.
【❌】 A company who values it's veteran and long standing players over incoming new players who further destabilize the game.

What you will find is:

【✔】Terrible balance that is always in favor of Survivors and more commonly 4-man SWFs.
【✔】Developers who intentionally lie, mislead and miscommunicate to its playerbase.
【✔】All Generator Objectives that will literally be done in under three minutes before fairplay can even take effect.
【✔】Complete gutting of strong, viable Killer perks that actually put pressure on survivors to perform at peak levels for extended periods of time. [Cough Cough! Ruin]
【✔】A complete out of touch, baboon for a Director who tells players to “Go Play Civ” instead.
【✔】Developers who barely play their own game and when they do, lose hilariously bad.
【✔】Having to deal with hyper toxic premades of 2-4 on the regular with no incentive, reward or benefit to doing so.
【✔】Large penalties for DCing due to either choice [usually because of the reason listed above], bugs, crashes, etc.
【✔】A meaningful matchmaking that rewards players with good lobbies and a skill based rank hierarchy system that isn’t full of boosted SWFs and Rank 1’s.
【✔】A divergent Killer list that’s viable at all ranks.


What it boils down to is that; despite it being the god of the survival-horror game genre and at times can be incredibly fun and fulfilling.
It often more than naught, fails to live up it’s glamour for players who pass the one hundred hour mark of gameplay.
There are glaring issues concerning the health of the game and at this point, it’s obvious the Developers are incapable of doing their jobs.


In order to play the game on a fair level, you either have to sink hundreds of hours and quite possibly the krone as well.

Killers at top tiers are suffocating and unfun/unfair to play against, while the middle tier just kind of exist while the bottom tier is in a permanent state of crusty.
As an original Wraith main that branched out, it's taken them three reworks to get him in a semi-usable state.
Mission Failed: Time to get out, Snake.

SWF has been and always will control this games direction, fun and balance, as Devs care more about a delusional mentality they share "WE ARE THE MAJORITY IF WE LEAVE THE GAME DIES" and under with this, become under impression they bring in the most shekels.

Despite all these things, I put hundreds of krone and thousands of hours into this game, because like all killer mains, we are gluttons for pain.


tl;dr
Do not buy the game and if you do, do not take it seriously or spend a dime beyond what you have too.


Additional notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwdPlx9yR4
Join the Killers Alliance and put a stop to Survivor on Killer Violence.
https://gtm.you1.cn/groups/dbdkillers
https://gtm.you1.cn/id/ 1800 Gameplay time.