Will they climate the horror of being hunted by Emil?
Behaviour Interactive, creators of the asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror online game Useless by Daylight, launched a collaboration with the favored online game NieR:Automata on Tuesday. The workers first teased on Saturday, “The combat for humanity continues in The Fog,” after which posted a promotional video:
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The collaboration’s “Legendary Outfits” embody a 2B costume for Feng Min and A2 costume for Yui Kimura. Killer gamers will obtain a Very Uncommon Outfit impressed by Emil for The Legion.
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Useless by Daylight isn’t any stranger to collaborations with anime and manga. In July 2022, the sport partnered with well-liked anime sequence Attack on Titan for a set of participant cosmetics. The sport additionally had two anime associated collaborations in early 2025 with manga creator Junji Ito that January and well-liked horror anime series Tokyo Ghoul that March.
Useless by Daylight is an uneven multiplayer sport the place one participant takes management of a savage killer, who hunts down 4 different non-killer gamers in a killing floor. The purpose of the non-killer gamers is to flee the killing floor. The sport is well-known for that includes a large forged of killers from different media franchises together with Silent Hill, Halloween, Stranger Issues, and lots of others. The sport launched in June 2016 for PlayStation 4 and for the Xbox One in 2017. It was ported to Nintendo Change in 2019, and PlayStation 5, Stadia, and Xbox Sequence X|S in 2020.
The NieR:Automata sport shipped for PlayStation 4 in Japan in February 2017, followed by North America and Europe in March 2017. Square Enix additionally released the sport on PC by way of Steam in March 2017, and on Xbox One in June 2018. The sport launched on Change in October 2022.
The sport impressed a tv anime NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a, which premiered in January 2023. The second cours (quarter of 12 months) premiered in July 2024. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.
Sources: Press launch, Useless by Daylight sport’s X/Twitter account and YouTube channel