Dead by Daylight at 10: Art the Clown Confirmed for November 2026, Movie Director Attached
Behaviour Interactive's anniversary broadcast dropped two big ones: Art the Clown joins the roster in November 2026, and the Dead by Daylight movie finally has a director.
Ten years in, Dead by Daylight is still capable of stopping a room. Behaviour Interactive’s 10th anniversary broadcast confirmed that Art the Clown — the chainsaw-dragging centerpiece of the Terrifier franchise — is coming to the asymmetric horror game as a full chapter in November 2026, per IGN. That timing lands roughly 10 years and 5 months after the game’s original June 2016 launch, making it one of the latest-milestone drops on the game’s content calendar.
The broadcast didn’t stop there. Behaviour also confirmed that a feature-film director has been attached to the long-in-development Dead by Daylight movie, though full details on the project are still rolling out.
November 2026 gives Behaviour roughly 18 months of hype runway from announcement to release — a longer lead than most live-service drops, and a deliberate one. Art the Clown is among the most culturally buzzed horror icons of the last decade, and scheduling the chapter at the tail end of the landmark anniversary year signals this isn’t a standard content drop. It’s a statement.
A decade on the clock and Art the Clown on the roster: the anniversary isn’t a victory lap — it’s a relaunch moment.
