Dead by Daylight's developer is laying off 95 employees due to "Strategic Changes"

Behaviour Interactive has revealed that it will implement multiple strategic changes to its corporate structure. The company will focus on pursuing its vision of being the leader in horror and service and exploring the possibilities of location-based entertainment. As a result, up to 95 employees will be laid off, but as companies tend to say in these situations, those affected will be aided in their search for a new job.

Of the 95 affected employees, 70 are based in Montreal. This is the same studio that laid off another 45 employees earlier in the year, for a total of 115 employees laid off in that studio this year.

Behaviour has confirmed that this won't affect their service business or the development of Dead by Daylight, either confirming that none of the employees there were affected or expressing confidence that the ones laid off were not relevant enough to make a difference.

In the last five years, Behaviour has experienced significant growth in popularity and workforce, increasing from 575 to 1,300 employees. The pandemic likely played a role in this growth. However, like many other companies, as things began to return to normal, they realized they could no longer support that many employees. This has resulted in the need to restructure and lay off the surplus of employees or face closure, though this is mostly speculation.

In 2024 alone, multiple companies had to close studios or lay off significant numbers of employees, such as Microsoft, which, for unclear reasons, had to close four of its studios. Three were closed, and the fourth one was absorbed into another studio; or PlayStation laying off over 900 employees across Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, and more back in February; there are multiple examples as in this first half of 2024, numerous companies big and small have laid off thousands of employees, and unfortunately this trend doesn't seem to end anytime soon.