Dead by Daylight’s Black Banquet Turns the 10th Anniversary Into a Twisted Feast

Dead by Daylight’s new anniversary event, The Black Banquet, is now underway, inviting Killers and Survivors to a grotesque celebration where fine dining comes with teleportation, invisibility, refreshed items and the usual threat of being sacrificed to an eldritch entity.

Running from June 25 to July 16, The Black Banquet replaces the long-running Twisted Masquerade as Dead by Daylight’s new annual anniversary tradition. Behaviour Interactive is using the event to mark the game’s 10th anniversary with a food-themed Trial modifier, new cosmetics, Bloodpoint bonuses and a set of objectives that turn every match into a chaotic dinner service inside The Fog.

The tone is appropriately absurd: players are invited to enjoy “the finest dining The Fog has to offer,” but the menu is less about comfort food than it is about temporary powers, map disruption and opportunistic escapes.

The Black Banquet becomes Dead by Daylight’s new anniversary tradition

Behaviour Interactive confirmed during its 10th Anniversary celebrations that The Black Banquet is taking over from the Twisted Masquerade as the game’s recurring anniversary event.

That is a meaningful shift. The Twisted Masquerade had become closely associated with Dead by Daylight’s anniversary identity, combining ornate masks, supernatural party aesthetics and limited-time gameplay modifiers. The Black Banquet keeps the celebratory structure but changes the visual language entirely, moving toward a darker dinner-party concept built around cursed food, strange ingredients and unsettling hospitality.

The event is not simply a cosmetic overlay. Players will need to interact with its themed objectives during Trials, gathering ingredients, helping build a feast and triggering special modifiers that can alter how a match unfolds.

For an asymmetrical multiplayer game where map knowledge, timing and resource management already matter heavily, those temporary effects can create unusual moments that would not normally happen in standard Dead by Daylight matches.

A two-course meal of Trial modifiers

The Black Banquet is structured around a “two-course meal” that unfolds over the course of a Trial.

The main course includes Stuffed Trotters, Baked Camembert and Creamy Pasta, followed by a dessert course built around Fresh Fruit Cake. Behaviour has deliberately kept the event’s food theme playful, but each meal component is tied to in-game effects that can influence both Survivors and Killers.

One of the clearest examples is Baked Camembert. During the event, portals can appear around the map, allowing players to teleport. Survivors who consume a morsel become briefly invisible to the Killer, while using a portal can refresh held items or grant a new item alongside another short invisibility burst.

That creates a very different kind of pressure from normal Dead by Daylight gameplay. A Survivor who seems trapped may suddenly disappear, reposition through a portal or recover item value at a critical moment. Killers, meanwhile, will need to account for more unpredictable rotations and may have to reconsider whether committing to a chase is worth the risk.

Event objectives encourage players to engage with the feast

The Black Banquet is also built around dedicated gameplay objectives rather than relying only on passive anniversary bonuses.

Behaviour has described the event as a system where players gather ingredients, prepare the feast and unlock modifiers during active Trials. The result is an event structure that asks both sides to make decisions beyond their normal priorities of generators, hooks, chases and escapes.

That can create temporary alliances of convenience, particularly in matches where players want to progress event objectives before the Trial becomes too dangerous. Dead by Daylight has used similar systems in past limited-time events, where Killers and Survivors are encouraged to interact with shared objectives despite having directly opposing win conditions.

The balance challenge is obvious. If the event modifiers are too strong, they can overwhelm the standard game flow. If they are too weak, players may ignore them entirely. The most successful anniversary events tend to sit between those extremes, giving players a reason to experiment without making the core chase-and-escape loop feel irrelevant.

Banquet Outfits, masks and anniversary rewards are also on the menu

The Black Banquet includes a new set of event cosmetics and progression rewards.

Players can complete quests to unlock Banquet Outfits for Dwight Fairfield and The Trapper, alongside Killer weapons, Survivor masks, badges and banners. Additional themed outfits for characters including The Legion, The Oni, The Doctor, Kate Denson and Claudette Morel are available through the in-game store.

The event also brings back anniversary offerings with increased Bloodpoint value. Behaviour has confirmed that these offerings now provide 110% more Bloodpoints, giving players an additional incentive to load into Trials during the event period.

That matters during an anniversary event because Bloodpoints remain one of the most practical rewards in Dead by Daylight. Cosmetic unlocks and themed modifiers are useful for the limited-time atmosphere, but bonus Bloodpoints allow players to make permanent progress across their Killer and Survivor rosters.

A new celebration built around chaos, not nostalgia

The Black Banquet has a different objective from a standard Chapter launch. It is not trying to introduce a new Killer, Survivor or map. Instead, it turns the 10th anniversary into a temporary ruleset where Dead by Daylight’s familiar Trial structure becomes more unstable.

Portals, invisibility effects, item refreshes and food-themed objectives are all designed to create situations where players need to adapt on the fly. A chase that would normally end at a pallet may now involve a sudden portal escape. A Killer who expects a Survivor to be out of resources may find them with a refreshed item. A player focused on the match’s normal objectives may have to decide whether an event interaction is worth the risk.

That unpredictability is the event’s real appeal. The Black Banquet does not replace the core Dead by Daylight experience, but it deliberately disturbs it for a few weeks.

For long-term players, it also marks the beginning of a new anniversary era. The Twisted Masquerade is gone, and the Entity’s next tradition is not a ball. It is dinner.