PAX East 2026 Cosplay Meetups – Dead By Daylight

The first Cosplay Meetup gallery from Friday of PAX East 2026 is the game Dead by Daylight, an online 1-versus-4 survival horror game launched in 2016. Since then, the developer studio Behaviour Interactive has licensed dozens of character designs from existing franchises, including movies like Saw and Halloween, games such as Silent Hill and Resident Evil and even anime like Attack on Titan. If you are wondering why you recognize some cosplays in the gallery even though you may not have played the game, those licensing deals are the answer.

The meetup was hosted by the amazing hauntedcosplay, who you usually see at a convention as Werewolf Wolverine. He is in the gallery linked below, the one that looks sort of like if Babish was cosplaying from Shaun of the Dead. Not the one that seems to actually be cosplaying as Shaun, although I don’t see in the wiki that the game had licensed that movie.

From a cosplay standpoint, the large number of licensing deals Behaviour Interactive has done makes for a huge pool of characters to draw from. A cosplayer can almost pick a favorite character, make it bloody and, voila, it’s a Dead by Daylight character. And that large pool is one of the reasons why this single gallery is larger than both of the two from Thursday combined. Not that it is the biggest gallery — that will be the last one, the Nintendo meetup from Saturday evening.

Among the cosplayers in this gallery are hauntedcosplay, joyeous13, pink_lothcat_collects, lacewrought, maximumksa_, kenneth_pereira, and many more.

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