The Stories of Hooked On You: A Dead by Daylight Sim Dating Sim are Not Canon
Mathieu Côte, Game Director for Dead by Daylight and Head of Partnerships at Behaviour Digital, stated that the stories of “Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim” are not to be believed. Players need to understand that the events occurring on Murderer’s Island do not reflect the reality of the world of the dead by Daylight.
Let’s call it Hooked On You. This reveals that The Trapper is really into lying on the sand and watching the waves crash on a beautiful summer day. He poses for you to get the perfect photo. This is not something that he will use in the main Dead By Daylight game. It will not be a real thing.
Although the stories, behaviors, and quirks of the characters in Hooked On You may not be canon, they still have a “sort-of seal of approval” from Behaviour. Cote states Murderer’s Island should be viewed as “a place where things occur, [the characters] were taken from a real space, but what they do in that space has no repercussions.”
The behavior started talking to several game development companies after conceiving Hooked On You. They settled on Psyop. This company is best known for making the visually stunning visual novel I Love You, Colonel Sanders. Hooked on You is a Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator. Their pitch was reminiscent of OVAs.
Cote states that one of the ways they presented it was with the idea of the beach episode. This is a common trope in many anime. These episodes are usually understood as a joke in these cases. They’re tongue-in-cheek and kind of outside reality.
This setting allows the original elements of the main game characters — in which everything in the Dead by Daylight universe is canon — to be used as inspirations for Murderer’s Island. Cote compares the Mirror Dimension from Doctor Strange to give players a better understanding.
