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‘Dead by Daylight: Sinister Grace’ Chapter Out Now [Trailer]
After the brief reveal of Dead by Daylight: Sinister Grace earlier this month by Behaviour Interactive, the latest Chapter is out now on PC and consoles, with the Switch version arriving September 25. Sinister Grace plunges players into a nightmare of Thai folk horror, dripping gore, and gruesome body horror with a terrifying new Killer in The Krasue, and an energetic new Survivor in Vee Boonyasak.
Her opera singing days over, The Krasue now seeks victims amidst The Fog, her head tearing violently from her body to pursue and feed on Survivors. The peak of body horror, The Krasue is skinless, sticky, and squelching, a trail of entrails dangle from her neck. And while there’s plenty of gruesome gore to appreciate, it’s important to remember that The Krasue curses its victims. In this case, the recipient of its curse was Burong Sukapat, a beautiful and talented opera performer. By day, she would enrapture audiences with a voice both ethereal and haunting.
Little did they know that by night, she was stalking the streets of Siam as a disembodied head, devouring everything from decaying carcasses, to garbage, to human flesh.
This duality manifests in game, granting players the ability to swap between two forms. Traverse on foot to spit a Leeching Gland at Survivors, making them more vulnerable to your attacks. Once Survivors are cursed, Krasue players can switch to Head Form to pursue them and strike with your Intestinal Whip.
Arriving alongside The Krasue is Vee Boonyasak, a Thai drummer from the Punk band Axekick. Joining a growing roster of musicians in The Fog, Vee shares an interesting musical connection with The Krasue. Though they were actively performing at different times, Vee stumbled upon several haunting recordings of Burong singing. Not long after, Vee began to hear that same strange and unsettling music during Axekick’s climatic encore. Suffice it to say, it did not end well.
And as both characters were performers, the Sinister Grace Collection includes Outfits they once wore on their respective stages; one operatic, the other punk rock. It also brings a few casual options into the mix, including a glimpse at what Burong Sukapat might have worn during her day-to-day life – before the Krasue emerged to hunt.
Black Tabby Games has dropped a little update on the progress for Scarlet Hollow, announcing that writing work on their planned expansion to the game’s first five episodes has finished, with the team pivoting to the art. Testing for the update is set to begin in “about a couple of weeks,” though if you’re a Patreon member, you can get early access to it.
The update adds around 70,000 words of new and remastered content, with most of it expanding some of the shorter sections. The update also tweaks certain aspects of gameplay, as well as adding more dialogue (obviously) between characters, and even revamps one of the endings to the fifth episode.
The team also confirmed that writing for Episode 6 is well underway, though no release date has been announced.
Currently in Early Access on Steam, Scarlet Hollow is an immersive horror-mystery with sharp writing, impactful choices, and meticulously hand-drawn art. What was supposed to be a quiet getaway in the rural mountains of North Carolina to meet your long-lost cousin and comfort her through her mother’s funeral, has turned into a nightmare of cryptids and other supernatural horrors. You only have to survive a week. But can you get to the bottom of these mysteries haunting Scarlet Hollow before they claim your life?
If you’re keen on learning more about the game, check out Aaron’s review of the first five chapters.