If for some purpose you’ll be able to't get sufficient of Stranger Issues' Vecna, now you can play as him in Lifeless by Daylight's newest crossover
I can not fake to be something apart from relieved that Stranger Issues is over. Whereas I loved the primary few seasons of its pulpy Spielberg pastiche, it finally turned far too large for its Nike excessive tops. However when you nonetheless have not had sufficient of the gang explaining its preposterously convoluted plans to kill Vecna, you’ll be able to keep on the journey by way of Lifeless by Daylight, within the newest crossover for Behaviour Interactive’s multiplayer slash ’em up.
Titled Stranger Issues: Chapter 2, the collab sees three extra playable characters from the Duffer Brothers’ cultural megalith to affix Steve and Nancy, who had been added to the sport again in 2019. On the survivor aspect, gamers can assume the roles of Eleven and Dustin, whereas sentient butcher’s store window Vecna arrives as an all-new killer.
The pack additionally provides two legendary outfits to Lifeless by Daylight, with Dustin capable of don the denim-heavy guise of deceased metalhead Eddie Munson, whereas Chapter 1’s Nancy will get an outfit themed round Steve’s finest pal Robin Buckley. There isn’t any legendary outfit for Eleven at current, although Steve can masquerade as Jonathan Byres in an outfit added within the first collaboration.
Satirically, that is removed from the strangest licensing crossover the multiplayer slasher has accomplished. Could noticed characters from The Witcher flip up in Behaviour Interactive’s sport, whereas August weirdly introduced characters from Murderer’s Creed Shadows into the slaughter.
2026 will see Lifeless by Daylight rejoice its tenth anniversary, with Behaviour having revealed a particular Collector’s Version and teased some larger plans for celebrations on the finish of final yr. The studio spent most of 2025 engaged on a main high quality of life initiative, after pushing again plans to increase the sport to deal with “many longstanding considerations” voiced by gamers.
Stranger Issues: Chapter 2 is at present accessible to play by way of Lifeless by Daylight’s public check construct, with the official launch going down on January 27.