Forsaken vs Dead by Daylight: Clock vs Gates, Puzzles vs Hooks, Kits vs Perks (2026)

Forsaken vs Dead by Daylight compared system by system: a four-minute clock vs exit gates, Numberlink generators vs skill checks, elimination vs hooks, fixed kits vs perks — and what transfers between them.

Published October 15, 2025Updated September 9, 202613 min readBy Sukie

Forsaken vs Dead by Daylight: both are one killer against four survivors, and that is roughly where the resemblance ends. Dead by Daylight is a match of generators, hooks, perks and exit gates; Forsaken is a four-minute clock, five Numberlink puzzles, fixed character kits and no hooks, perks, gates or hatch at all. Search for Forsaken vs Dead by Daylight and most of what you find assumes the Roblox game is a scaled-down copy — hook stages, struggle phases, moris, perk builds. It is not, and an earlier version of this page made exactly that mistake, describing "Forsaken hook stages" that have never existed. This comparison is rebuilt from the Official Forsaken Wiki on one side and Dead by Daylight's well-known core rules on the other. It covers the objective and win condition, how survivors lose and whether they can be rescued, chase mechanics, how characters differ, progression and cost, the cast and maps, and — most usefully for a player crossing over — which habits transfer and which will get you killed. Where a system exists in one game and not the other, the table says so plainly rather than inventing an equivalent.

Forsaken vs Dead by Daylight: The Core Systems

Forsaken column from the Official Forsaken Wiki (September 2026). Dead by Daylight column limited to its documented base rules; DbD numbers vary by perk, add-on and patch, so none are quoted.

System	Forsaken (Roblox)	Dead by Daylight
Players	1 killer vs 4 survivors	1 killer vs 4 survivors
Survivor win condition	Outlast a four-minute clock; each generator layer trims 3 s, a generator 12 s, all five 60 s	Repair 5 of 7 generators, then open an exit gate (or find the hatch as the last survivor)
Killer win condition	Eliminate all four; each elimination extends the clock	Sacrifice survivors on hooks (three hook states) or kill them
Generator mechanic	Four 6x6 Numberlink puzzles per generator, 2–12 wire pairs; interruption regenerates the layer	Hold to repair with periodic skill checks
Downed state / rescue	None — zero health is elimination. Exceptions are kits: Two Time's second life, Dusekkar's Spawn Protection	Dying state, carry, hook, unhook by teammates
Perks / loadouts	None — every character is a fixed kit	Four perks per character plus items, add-ons and offerings
Chase resources	Geometry only: no pallets, no window vaults, no lockers	Pallets, window vaults, lockers, breakable walls
Healing	Medkit item (80 HP over 7 s), Elliot's Pizza Throw, Dusekkar's shield, Veeronica's battery	Self-heal and teammate heal with skill checks; medkits
Items in a round	Two kinds spawn publicly: Medkit and Bloxy Cola	Brought in via Bloodweb: medkits, toolboxes, flashlights, maps, keys
Last survivor	Last Man Standing: timer resets to 1:14, both players highlighted for 6 s	Hatch spawns; exit gates may be opened; endgame collapse
Progression	Player Points (public matches only) to buy characters; per-character EXP to level 100 for Milestone skins	Bloodpoints into a Bloodweb for perks, items and add-ons; prestige levels
Ranked mode	None	Grade system and hidden MMR
Roster	7 core killers, 12 core survivors, plus collaboration characters	Dozens of licensed and original killers and survivors
Maps	19 public maps, 11 private-server maps, 9 variants (wiki)	Many realms with procedurally arranged tiles

The single most important row for a crossover player is "Downed state / rescue": in Forsaken there is no second chance unless a character kit provides one.

The objective: a clock versus a gate

Dead by Daylight survivors have to finish something — five generators and a gate — before the killer finishes them. Forsaken survivors have to survive something: a four-minute timer that the killer lengthens with each elimination and that survivors shorten with generator layers. That inversion drives every strategic difference.

Generators are puzzles, not progress bars

A Forsaken generator is four 6x6 Numberlink puzzles with a random 2 to 12 wire pairs per layer. Each completed layer pays 5 Player Points, 15 EXP and 3 seconds off the clock; a finished generator is 12 seconds and all five are 60. Up to three survivors can work one at once from its front, left and right sides. Take damage, move away or hold sprint and you exit the puzzle — and the wires regenerate. There are no skill checks, no repair speed and no toolboxes.

No gates, no hatch

Survivors never leave a Forsaken map. When the clock hits zero, the survivors still alive win. When one survivor remains, Last Man Standing resets the timer to 1 minute 14 seconds and highlights both players to each other for 6 seconds — a hunt, not a hatch race.

How survivors lose: elimination, not sacrifice

This is the difference that catches every Dead by Daylight veteran. There is no dying state to crawl in, no carry, no hook and no unhook. When a Forsaken survivor's health reaches zero, they are eliminated and the killer's clock extends. The wiki documents exactly three ways around that, and all of them are character abilities.

Two Time's Oblation

Two Time starts with 80 HP and a bar that fills only by damaging the killer with Sacrificial Dagger — 20% for a front stab, 40% for a backstab. A full bar grants a second life at 50 HP (or 110 in a full-Oblation Last Man Standing), restores 40% stamina, clears status effects and gives 2 seconds of invincibility and Speed II.

Dusekkar's Spawn Protection and Guest 1337's Block

Dusekkar shields a chosen survivor for up to 3.5 seconds with Resistance IV at a 95-stud range, and earns 10 Player Points if the shield absorbs a fatal hit. Guest 1337's Block fully negates a basic attack for 1.75 seconds — a special ability breaks it. Neither is a rescue; both are prevention.

Health pools instead of health states

Dead by Daylight survivors have two health states. Forsaken survivors have a number: 100 HP for most, 110 for Guest 1337, 90 for Builderman and Dusekkar, 80 for Elliot, 60 for Jane Doe, 58 to 120 for Chance. Killer basic attacks land for 20 to 28, so a chase is three to five hits long, and a Medkit restores 80 of them.

Claims you will read elsewhere — "Forsaken hook stages last 50 seconds", "struggle by clicking every 0.8 seconds", "self-unhook chance", "moris on death hook", "800 to 1,200 coins per hook state" — describe nothing in Forsaken. The wiki documents no hooks, no struggle, no unhooks and no moris. An earlier version of this page repeated all of them; they have been removed.

Chases: geometry without resources

Dead by Daylight chases are resource management — pallets to drop, windows to vault, lockers to hide in, each with entity blocks and cooldowns. Forsaken has none of those. Its wiki documents no vault, pallet or locker mechanic on any map, so a chase is about breaking line of sight behind solid geometry and spending stamina at the right time.

Flat survivor speed, faster killers

Every Forsaken survivor walks at 12 and runs at 26 with 100 stamina (10 per second drain, 20 regen). Every killer runs at 27 to 28 with 110 stamina. The killer always closes on open ground; survivors win time with corners, abilities and the killer's own cooldowns.

Information is everywhere

Six of the seven Forsaken killers have a documented aura reveal — John Doe's 404 Error (all survivors, 6 s), 1x1x1x1's Unstable Eye (all players, 8 s), c00lkidd's Corrupt Nature, Nosferatu's Cataclysm trail, Noli's Hallucination, Guest 666's Bloodhound. Dead by Daylight gates most aura reading behind perks; in Forsaken it is baseline, which makes hiding a much weaker plan.

Characters: fixed kits versus builds

In Dead by Daylight a survivor is largely a cosmetic wrapper around four perks, and a killer is a power plus four perks and two add-ons. In Forsaken the character is the whole build.

Twelve survivors, three classes

Survivalists (Noob, 007n7, Veeronica) look after themselves; Sentinels (Shedletsky, Two Time, Chance, Guest 1337, Jane Doe) interfere with the killer through stuns, blocks and knockbacks; Supports (Elliot, Builderman, Dusekkar, Taph) help the team. Three are free, the rest cost 500 to 777 Player Points, and Jane Doe is unlocked through quests. Nothing about a kit can be changed.

Seven killers, seven playstyles

The wiki labels them: John Doe Trapper / Setplay, 1x1x1x1 Ranged / Attrition, c00lkidd Versatile, Nosferatu Ambush / Stealth / Zoner, Noli Rushdown / Deception, Slasher Ambusher / Bruteforce, Guest 666 Burst / Snowball. Two are free; the rest cost 1,000 to 1,922 Player Points. Each has a basic attack and up to four abilities on fixed cooldowns, and no add-ons to alter them.

Progression and cost

Dead by Daylight is a paid game with paid characters, and progression runs through Bloodpoints spent in each character's Bloodweb for perks, items, add-ons and offerings, with prestige levels on top. Forsaken is free on Roblox. Its currency is Player Points, earned only in public matches — 40 for surviving a round, 10 for dying after the first minute, 5 per generator layer, 60 for a killer wipe plus 15 per kill, and small bonuses for landing abilities — and spent on characters, skins and emotes. Each character also earns EXP toward Milestone skins at level 25 and a cap of 100. There is nothing to unlock that changes how a character plays.

Pro Tip

Crossing from Dead by Daylight to Forsaken: forget the loop. You cannot run a tile because there is nothing on the tile to use. Learn where the five generators and the Medkit spawns are, leave a puzzle before the hit rather than after, and treat every killer reveal as the moment to move. Crossing the other way: you will find the perk system enormous and the chase toolkit generous — and hooks a shock after a game where a hit at zero health is simply the end.

What transfers, and what does not

The honest list for a player who knows one game and is trying the other.

Transfers

Splitting the objective across the team. Reading a killer's cooldowns. Breaking line of sight instead of running in a straight line. Choosing when to commit to an objective and when to leave. Recognising that the killer wins by controlling space, not by chasing one target.

Does not transfer

Pallet and vault timing (nothing to vault). Hook-rescue coordination (nothing to rescue). Perk builds (nothing to build). Skill-check rhythm (nothing to time). Gate strategy (nothing to open). And the instinct that one hit is survivable: in Forsaken, health is a number, and when it is gone you are out.

Final Thoughts

Forsaken and Dead by Daylight are both 1v4, and both have things called generators and killers. Beyond that, Forsaken is its own design: a clock instead of gates, puzzles instead of skill checks, elimination instead of hooks, fixed kits instead of perks, geometry instead of pallets, and free characters bought with points you can only earn in public matches. Compare them for what each does well — not by pretending one is a copy of the other.

• Forsaken: 4-minute clock, five Numberlink generators, no gates, no hatch; DbD: repair 5 gens and open a gate
• Forsaken has no hooks, downed state, struggle, unhooks or moris — zero health is elimination
• No perks, add-ons or loadouts in Forsaken; every character is a fixed kit
• No pallets, vaults or lockers; chases are line-of-sight and stamina
• Player Points (public matches only) and per-character EXP replace Bloodpoints, Bloodwebs and prestige

Meet the Forsaken roster on /forsaken-killers and /forsaken-survivors, see the other Roblox games in this genre at /blog/roblox-games-like-dead-by-daylight-2026, and start with the basics at /roblox-forsaken-guide.

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