Jason Voorhees is finally coming to Dead by Daylight for its 10th anniversary

After a decade of fan requests, Jason Voorhees is finally joining the lineup of killers in Dead by Daylight. Developer Behaviour Interactive officially announced the iconic Friday the 13th slasher as part of the game's 10th anniversary celebrations, with Jason set to enter The Fog on June 16, 2026. Players on Steam's public test build can get an early taste of the hockey-masked killer from May 26.

Jason enters Dead by Daylight with two major abilities. The first, Omnipresent Evil, is a stealth-based power that allows him to vanish from the map entirely, moving at increased speed while tracking survivors through subtle footstep cues. To reappear, Jason must target environmental points like pallets, vault points, or breakable walls, appearing seemingly out of nowhere for a perfect jumpscare.

The second ability, Improvised Carnage, lets Jason throw makeshift projectiles scattered across the map, including locker fragments, broken generator parts, shattered pallets, and hooks. A successful throw staggers a survivor, and hitting an injured survivor near a wall pins them in place, letting you savor the kill even more.

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When Jason arrives in Dead by Daylight, four outfits will be available at launch, with the default look being the iconic 13-holed hockey mask, machete, and weather-beaten clothing. The rest of the collection includes a Backwoods Terror outfit that swaps the machete for a heavy axe, while the Death Forsaken skin features exposed bone and a shovel. The Depths of Despair outfit sees Jason emerge covered in barnacles, coral, and seaweed, a nod to his time in Crystal Lake.

That being said, Jason will now join Behaviour's roster of horror icons, which includes Chucky, Freddy Krueger, Ghostface, Leatherface, Pyramid Head, and Pinhead. Senior Creative Director Dave Richard said the 10th anniversary chapter needed to be something really special, and that the partnership with Jason Universe made the timing feel perfect.