Players may choose from 33 Killers, some original and some licensed from other horror franchises. Each Killer has a power that is unique to them. They are listed below in the order in which they were released.
| Killer | Franchise | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killer name | Real name | ||
| The Trapper | Evan MacMillan | Original characters | Sets bear traps to catch and injure Survivors. These traps can be disarmed by Survivors. The Trapper can pick up, relocate, and reset his traps. |
| The Wraith | Philip Ojomo | Rings his bell to gain increased movement speed and near-invisiblity at the cost of being unable to attack Survivors until he rings his bell again. | |
| The Hillbilly | Max Thompson Jr. | Sprints with his chainsaw that instantly puts Survivors into the dying state. Repeated use of the chainsaw can cause it to overheat, making it unusable for a short time. | |
| The Nurse | Sally Smithson | Has the ability to teleport significant distances and through objects and walls, at the cost of reduced base speed and incurring a temporary fatigue after teleportation. | |
| The Shape | Michael Myers | Halloween | Stalks Survivors to increase his power. The Shape starts the match with a hidden terror radius albeit with major debuffs to his speed and attack power. After stalking Survivors he becomes stronger, and eventually becomes strong enough to instantly put survivors in the dying state. |
| The Hag | Lisa Sherwood | Original characters | Places traps that are triggered by survivors when they walk near them. Triggered traps show an illusion of the Hag and allow her to teleport instantly to them. Survivors can wipe away traps. |
| The Doctor | Herman Carter | Drives Survivors insane with electric shocks, making skill checks more difficult, hallucinations of The Doctor appear, and temporarily removes their ability to fight back against him. When driven fully insane, survivors cannot interact with most things until they snap out of it. | |
| The Huntress | Anna | Throws hatchets to injure Survivors from afar, reloading hatchets at lockers. | |
| The Cannibal | "Leatherface" Sawyer | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Uses his chainsaw for increased movement speed and a sweeping attack that instantly puts Survivors into the dying state. |
| The Nightmare | Freddy Krueger | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Survivors fall asleep over time, making them vulnerable to traps set by him. The Nightmare can also teleport directly to generators. |
| The Pig | Amanda Young | Saw | Places reverse bear traps onto Survivors, which activate when generators are completed and kills Survivors after a period of time if not removed. Can also crouch, hiding her terror radius and granting her a longer-range ambush attack. |
| The Clown | Kenneth Chase ("Jeffrey Hawk") | Original characters | Throws bottles of either poison gas to slow down Survivors and blur their vision or an antidote that increases the movement speed of both The Clown and Survivors. |
| The Spirit | Rin Yamaoka | Phases through an alternate dimension where her speed is increased, though she cannot see Survivors during this and has to rely on other environmental cues such as scratch marks or moving grass. Survivors cannot see The Spirit while she phases, but can hear a directional sound that indicates her current location. | |
| The Legion | Frank Morrison, Julie Kostenko, Susie Lavoie, and Joey | Enters a mode which grants increased movement speed and the ability to vault over objects. If they attack a Survivor during this time, the locations of other Survivors are revealed and the injured Survivor must mend their injury before being able to heal to their full health state. | |
| The Plague | Adiris | Infects Survivors and objects by vomiting on them; all infected survivors loudly cough and vomit, making noise to reveal themselves, and can spread their infection to other survivors and objects. Survivors can cleanse the infection at fountains around the map. After cleansing, the fountain becomes corrupted, which The Plague can interact with to temporarily gain a deadly version of her vomit attack which deals damage to Survivors instead of infecting them. | |
| The Ghost Face | Danny Johnson ("Jed Olsen") | Ghostface | Temporarily able to enter a period of stealth which hides his terror radius and gives him the ability to stalk Survivors. Fully stalked Survivors can be put into the dying state. Survivors can deactivate this ability by looking at The Ghost Face to reveal him. |
| The Demogorgon | — | Stranger Things | Places portals anywhere on the ground in order to enter the Upside Down and quickly traverses the map. Also has an extended lunge attack. |
| The Oni | Kazan Yamaoka | Original characters | Consumes the blood of injured Survivors to enter a period of heightened power, granting a dash and a lunge attack that can instantly put Survivors into the dying state. |
| The Deathslinger | Caleb Quinn | Shoots Survivors with a spear gun to reel them towards himself, reloading after every shot. Survivors can break the chain using objects in the environment. | |
| The Executioner | Pyramid Head | Silent Hill | By dragging his great knife across ground, The Executioner may attack from a short distance away through obstructions and leave trails on the ground. Survivors who walk on these trails are afflicted with "Torment" and can be sent to cages or instantly killed when downed. Survivors can remove Torment by rescuing another Survivor from a cage. |
| The Blight | Talbot Grimes | Original characters | Injects a serum into himself that grants him the ability to bounce off walls at a high speed to travel quickly across the map. |
| The Twins | Charlotte and Victor Deshayes | A pair of conjoined twins who can detach from the other. The smaller twin, Victor, detaches from Charlotte and has no terror radius, a significantly shorter stature, a faster movement speed, and an extended lunge attack. He can notify Charlotte of Survivors who are near him or hinder them by jumping on their backs. | |
| The Trickster | Ji-Woon Hak | Uses small throwing knives to gradually injure Survivors from afar. Injuring Survivors with knives charges his "Main Event" that allows him to throw his knives at a significantly faster rate. Has to reload knives at lockers, but has infinite knives during "Main Event". | |
| The Nemesis | Nemesis T-Type | Resident Evil | Uses a short-range tentacle attack to infect Survivors with the T-virus. Infected Survivors will take damage if hit by the tentacle again. AI-controlled zombies also roam the map, able to infect and damage infected Survivors. |
| The Cenobite | Elliot Spencer ("Pinhead") | Hellraiser | Binds Survivors with chains, reducing their movement speed until they break free. The Lament Configuration appears and controls the "Chain Hunt", an indefinite period of time where chains bind Survivors. Survivors may solve the Lament Configuration to end the Chain Hunt, but this allows The Cenobite to teleport to their location. |
| The Artist | Carmina Mora | Original character | Summons crows that can deal damage at close range, or swarms a Survivor if the crow travels a long range. Survivors swarmed by crows allows The Artist can see them through walls and a second summoned crow causes damage. |
| The Onryō | Sadako Yamamura | Ringu | Able to "de-manifest" to replace her terror radius with a faint lullaby and teleport to televisions around the map. After teleporting, all survivors are inflicted with a "Condemned" status, and once fully Condemned, can be killed instantly. Survivors must take videotapes from televisions to remove their condemned status. |
| The Dredge | — | Original character | Teleports to lockers around the map and is able to return to a remnant of itself left at the teleport origin. A "Nightfall" meter is slowly charged by attacking Survivors, and once full, makes the map near-completely dark for all Survivors while enhancing the Dredge’s power. Survivors can lock lockers to slow The Dredge’s exit from a locker. |
| The Mastermind | Albert Wesker | Resident Evil | Uses the Uroboros virus to quickly lunge a short distance, vault over obstacles, and grab Survivors on contact; this either deals damage if they are slammed into an object or throws them a significant distance. Survivors become infected if grabbed and must use an antidote to be cured. Fully infected survivors that are grabbed by the lunge attack are immediately put in the dying state. |
| The Knight | Tarhos Kovács | Original characters | Summons 3 AI-controlled guards (Carnifex, Assassin, and Jailer) who each have a unique skill. The guards can be sent break obstacles or independently patrol the map and catch Survivors; if detected, the Survivor is hunted by the guard for a short time and can become injured if the guard catches up with them. |
| The Skull Merchant | Adriana Imai | Places stationary drones on the map which emit yellow scanners as it rotates and gives The Skull Merchant momentary stealth. If a survivor passes through a drone’s beam three times, they are instantly injured. The Skull Merchant can use her radar to track survivors and interact with drones from afar. | |
| The Singularity | HUX-A7-13 | Shoots pods onto surfaces in the environment which The Singularity can control. While in control of one, it can watch survivors and shoot projectiles which tag them. Tagged survivors can then be teleported to by The Singularity, which activates an empowered state that prevents stuns. EMP devices, which are printed in cases throughout the map, temporarily disables the pods and removes tags. | |
| The Xenomorph | — | Alien | Using control stations around the map, The Xenomorph enters a tunnel system to quickly traverse the map and travel to other control stations. After a short time, The Xenomorph moves on all fours, making it stealthier and granting access to a special attack with its acidic tail. Survivors can interact with control stations to access flame turrets, which when deployed can momentarily stun The Xenomorph. |
| The Good Guy | Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray | Child’s Play | Played from a third-person perspective, The Good Guy can enter a stealth mode when he can lunge at survivors and crawl underneath pallets. |
Additionally, there are certain Rare, Ultra Rare, and Legendary skins that turn their respective Killers into alternate Killer characters. They are listed below in the order in which they were released.
| Legendary Killer | License | Original Killer |
|---|---|---|
| The Minotaur | Original character | The Oni |
| The Krampus | Original character | The Trapper |
| The Look-See | Crypt TV | The Doctor |
| The Mordeo | The Huntress | |
| The Ferryman | Original character | The Blight |
| The Chatterer | Hellraiser | The Cenobite |
| Baba Yaga | Original character | The Huntress |
| The Armored Titan | Attack on Titan[c] | The Oni |
| The War Hammer Titan | The Spirit | |
| HUNK | Resident Evil | The Legion |
| William Birkin | The Blight | |
| The Jabberwock | Alice in Wonderland | The Artist |
| Red Queen | The Huntress | |
| Xenomorph Queen | Alien | The Xenomorph |
| Naughty Bear | Naughty Bear | The Trapper |
| Tiffany Valentine | Child’s Play | The Good Guy |
| Eddie | Iron Maiden | TBA |