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Art the Clown Joins Dead by Daylight as Terrifier Chapter Hits Steam PTB
Behaviour Interactive announced a Dead by Daylight collaboration chapter with the Terrifier film series on October 29, 2026, and opened a Public Test Build on Steam the same day at midnight Japan time.
Reporting from 5 sources: Automaton, Denfaminicogamer, Cinema Today, ASCII.jp, and 1 more.
Why it matters
The chapter pairs a licensed killer with a same-update original map, and Behaviour ties the mall's lore to Dwight Fairfield, the survivor who got lost there as a child and met the Entity.
Key Facts
- Behaviour Interactive announced the Dead by Daylight: Terrifier collaboration chapter on October 29, 2026, with a Steam Public Test Build starting the same day at midnight Japan time.
- Dead by Daylight: Terrifier is scheduled for official release in late November 2026.
- Art the Clown joins Dead by Daylight as a Killer and Sienna Shaw joins as a Survivor.
- Art the Clown's Bag of Toys ability pulls a random weapon from a garbage bag, including a flail, flamethrower, handgun, bottle of acid, and bicycle horn.
- The update adds the original map The Hartshorne Mall, inspired by liminal spaces.
Art the Clown joins as a Killer and Sienna Shaw, the final girl of Terrifier 2, joins as a Survivor. Art's special ability, Bag of Toys, pulls a random weapon from a black garbage bag: a flail, a flamethrower, a handgun, a bottle of acid, or a bicycle horn. Each landed attack raises that weapon's lethality, and each weapon carries its own Mini-Mori kill animation. Art also gets a killer emote, which Behaviour describes as a first for the game, letting him point at a survivor on a hook and laugh. The update adds the original map The Hartshorne Mall, built around liminal-space imagery. Official release is planned for late November 2026.
The Hartshorne Mall was first teased during Dead by Daylight's 10th anniversary stream on June 10, and the chapter had already been announced for a November release before the October 29 date was confirmed.
Behaviour Interactive bills Art as a modern counterweight to the game's older killers. Dead by Daylight has drawn many Killers from 1980s and 1990s horror films, and the developer calls Art "a slasher symbolic of the modern era." The Terrifier films have run to three features so far, with a fourth in production, and the series first screened in Japan in 2023.
Art's three unique perks:
- Funny Business: damaging a generator gives a temporary movement speed boost plus a random effect, ranging from blocking the generator to bursting confetti.
- Kill Spree: once every generator is repaired and all Survivors reach hook stage 2, it unlocks the ability to kill Survivors.
- Laughingstock: Survivors near a repaired generator suffer the Exhausted and Oblivious status effects.
Sienna's three perks:
- Best Gift Ever: placing a held item on the ground grants a powerful ability.
- Shared Trauma: taking a hit for another Survivor lets all Survivors within 12 meters recover from Exhaustion while running.
- Valkyrie's Rage: a pallet stun while being chased lands harder than usual.
The chapter includes homages to signature scenes from the films. The PTB runs for a limited time on Steam, and the game itself is available across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.
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Sources
- Automaton 『Dead by Daylight』に新キラー「アート・ザ・クラウン」参戦へ、PTB始動。人気映画「テリファー」の残酷スプラッタ狂気ピエロが『DbD』に殴り込み
- Denfaminicogamer 『デッドバイデイライト』が映画『テリファー』とコラボ。SteamにてPTBがスタート
- Cinema Today 失神＆嘔吐者を出した『テリファー』が「Dead by Daylight」とコラボ！アート・ザ・クラウン参戦
- ASCII.jp 映画シリーズ「テリファー」と『Dead by Daylight』のコラボレーションチャプターが登場！SteamではPTBを開始
- Game Spark 『Dead by Daylight』×「テリファー」、アート・ザ・クラウンはゴミ袋から火炎放射器など取り出し吊るして笑い飛ばす。PTB開始で11月末に正式リリースへ