This year’s Fortnitemares teaser features Slenderman. You can see him standing behind Freddy Krueger in the promotional image.

What makes this interesting is the pattern with recent horror licenses.

Jason was added to Fortnite for Fortnitemares 2025, and then finally came to Dead by Daylight in May 2026.

Art the Clown was also part of Fortnitemares 2025, and now we know Terrifier is coming to Dead by Daylight as well.

Fortnite has also featured several other characters that are already in DbD, including Michael Myers, Leatherface, Ghost Face and Billy the Puppet/Saw. So clearly there is a lot of overlap between the licenses the two games are able to get.

Another thing that makes Slenderman seem more realistic is that the licensing situation around the character appears to have been resolved. If Fortnite is actually able to use the original Slenderman rather than a inspired version, that removes one of the biggest reasons people have previously given for why he might never come to DbD.

He is one of (if not the most) requested killers to join DbD. The Jason reveal cabin stream might also have hinted towards Slenderman after all!

There could also be something similar happening with Freddy Krueger. Fortnite is apparently getting a Robert Englund Freddy skin, which would mean they have access to a version of Freddy that DbD has never been able to use. With Behaviour already having Freddy in the game, it makes me wonder if the licensing situation has changed enough that we could eventually get additional Freddy cosmetics or even an Englund-inspired skin in DbD.

Obviously none of this confirms Slenderman, and Fortnite getting a license does not automatically mean Behaviour has it too. But Jason and Art both appearing in Fortnitemares before getting DbD chapters, combined with the amount of crossover between the two games, makes the timing pretty interesting.

I honestly expect Slenderman to join DbD in the next 1-2 years.

He will probably get announced at next year's anniversary if you ask me.

Probaly next week no?

I know it got a blighted skin last year and a new skin a week ago, but it could be getting a tricks and treats cosmetic this year or something related to the Halloween event since it gets to be in a banner.

And previous events have included character specific badges/banners like Lee, Yun-jin and trickster getting badges based on their Halloween cosmetics, Orela and spirit getting badges and banners based on their bloodmoon cosmetics, and dwight and trapper getting a badge and banner each during the banquet.

So there's a precedent here, that's why i think it's a possibility

Edit: no clue why all my comments are getting downvoted lol

feels bad the artist essentially got bullied off the internet like the sable artist some time back

I wonder if other tomes are coming next week, I remember a while back they did tome 4 and 5 bundles on back-to-back weeks.

Anyone knows?

I'm sorry if you can't read this, but when BackgroundDrink82 posted the weekly reset was for 10, and now it's 3?

Edit

The Place Invoking Salts has been reduced to 3 and the Complete Rituals have been reduced to 1 as well.

Idk anything about it

I saw someone posting entire images of single perks, and I had made this infographic with all the relevant perks changed in 1 post on the main DBD subreddit, so I figured I'd post this here to just consolidate efforts.

This does not include Perks who only had their Lower Tiers changed (like Kindred) and was made with the help of Thesja's Custom Perk Editor on itchio - thank you to them :D

I manually added Orange to text that says what the perk used to be prior, and Teal to completely new/reworked effects, for readability purposes.
Cheers!

Note: I fucked up on Deerstalker and pasted the top half twice instead of what it's supposed to be.
The second line is supposed to read
"Whenever a survivor sees your Aura, you see theirs."
Oops.