Dead By Daylight Anniversary 2023 Start Time, Twisted Masquerade Rewards, More

Original Story Follows - As Dead By Daylight's Year 7 finally came to a close in April 2023, it's now time for a new year of festivities and horror, including the 2023 Anniversary event, an updated roadmap, and more. Just ahead of us and following the Dead by Daylight 7th anniversary live stream comes the Anniversary event, which will mark the game's 7th year in existence.

Let's take a look at what killers and survivors can expect from this year's festivities, including the Dead By Daylight Year 7 Anniversary Event start time, date, and what items and other festivities will be available in-game.

Update on 22 June 2023 - This article was updated and checked for the latest news and leaks.

Latest News & Leaks

We'll be sure to keep you updated on all the most recent news and leaks, just below:

16 May 2023 - 7th Anniversary Stream Is Maybe Coming Next Week

Looks like the Dead By Daylight 7th Anniversary Stream announcement has leaked (more details on the link).

Hopefully, this means we'll be learning more about Season 28 very soon!

❦ on TwitterTune into the 7th Anniversary Stream next Tuesday, May 23rd! pic.twitter.com/njhb1mO0H0— ❦ (@dvveet) May 16, 2023❦Twitter

Dead By Daylight 7th Anniversary 2023 Start Time

Update - Now starting on 22 June 2023.

Dead by Daylight's anniversary month is in June, specifically on 14 June. This means that the anniversary event usually begins sometime in mid-June 2023 and will last throughout most of that month and possibly even into July 2022.

The 2023 anniversary event will begin on 21st June 2023, following a month of celebrations honoring Dead by Daylight's history.

Most Dead by Daylight events begin at 11 am EST, so the anniversary event will probably follow suit.

Dead By Daylight 7th Anniversary 2023 Events

Dead By Daylight's anniversary events usually include in-game rewards, event-specific offerings, and special tasks that players can complete during trials. The anniversary events are well-known in the community as one of the biggest celebrations of the year, allowing players to earn coveted cosmetics and rake in the Bloodpoints.

Pre-Anniversary Celebration: Before The Masquerade

This year, Dead by Daylight is hosting a month-long pre-anniversary celebration with four weeks full of activities celebrating Dead by Daylight's history.

Here's a look at those festivities:

• Week 1: Bloodhunt
• Week 2: Double Rift Fragments
• Week 3: Community Choice Event 
• Week 4: Chapter 28 Release

Anniversary Event Offerings

Starting during the Year 3-anniversary event, developers have released an event-specific cake-themed offering every year that can only be purchased from the Bloodweb during that year's event.

These items can be played after the event is over, but they can never be acquired again, as every year's item is unique. In 2023, it's extremely likely that we will get another special Anniversary event offering.

Here's a look at past years' event-specific anniversary cakes:

• Gruesome Ghateau - Grants 103 % bonus Bloodpoints in all Categories to all Players.
• Ghastly Ghateau - Grants 104 % bonus Bloodpoints in all Categories to all Players.
• Sacrificial Cake - Grants 105 % bonus Bloodpoints in all Categories to all Players. Reveals the Aura of the Crown Pillar in purple within 8 metres. Hear an auditory cue whenever the Crown Pillar moves location.
• Frightful Flan - Grants 106 % bonus Bloodpoints in all Categories to all Players. Reveals the Aura of the Crown Pillar in purple within 8 metres. Hear an auditory cue whenever the Crown Pillar moves location.

In-Game 7th Anniversary Event

During this year's 7th anniversary event, players will be able to bring along an offering and interact with an interactable object in the trial before either escaping as survivor or finishing the trial as killer to receive a cosmetic reward.

This year, however, players can save up the tokens they earn to give themselves an in-game boost in lieu of taking the cosmetic out with them. Survivors will be able to spawn a pallet to drop on the killer, stun them for a short time, or earn a speed boost. Killers will be granted less stun immunity, or the ability to break pallets from across the map.

The trials will also be decorated with 7th anniversary-themed decorations and objectives will be changed to fit the theme, with special generators and hooks finding their places within each match.

Dead By Daylight 7th Anniversary Event Rewards And Items

During the 2022 Twisted Masquerade Anniversary event, players were able to grab Masquerade Masks by interacting with Pillars around the map. In the years before that, both survivors and killers could find Crown Pillars around trials to grab a Crown cosmetic for their character - if they escaped as survivors or finished the trial as killers.

The Masquerade Masks are back in 2023, with brand new masks for players to earn including a mask for The Singularity, The Knight, and other recently-added killers. Players will still need to bring their offering and interact in-game with an objective, then escape or finish the game as survivor or killer respectively, to earn their cosmetic.

Here's a list of all the new masks you'll be able to obtain this year, along with all prior year's masks: 

• The Oni
• The Blight
• The Knight
• The Legion
• The Nurse
• The Singularity
• Felix Richter
• Gabriel Soma
• Jeff Johansen
• Jonah Vasquez
• Meg Thomas
• Zarina Kassir

That's what you can expect for Dead by Daylight's anniversary in 2023. We'll keep you updated as we learn more!