Dead By Daylight developers Behaviour acquire Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook | Gaming

Dead By Daylight developers Behaviour Interactive have announced that they’re acquiring Red Hook, the creators of Darkest Dungeon. This is the same Behaviour Interactive who recently laid off a bunch of people, cancelled a game and closed a studio, Midwinter Entertainment, after snapping up a bunch of developers (the others are SockMonkey, Codeglue and Fly Studio) over the past two years. Darkest Dungeon is a horror game like DBD, so I guess the acquisition chimes from that perspective. All the same, my snap judgement is “yikes”.

Red Hook will remain “a fully independent studio” under Behaviour, according to a definition of “independent” that has yet to be shared in full. “Darkest Dungeon has long been a series we’ve admired, enjoyed (and maybe even lost a little…