What are all of The Casting of Frank Stone Dead by Daylight easter eggs? Nearly a decade on from its initial release, asymmetrical horror game Dead by Daylight just keeps going from strength to strength. The popularity of the IP is now such that there are comic books, a spin-off dating sim, a graphic novel, more spin-off games, and even an upcoming movie hopefully still in the works..
The Casting of Frank Stone is another official game based on the property, so of course the horror game is littered with DBD references and easter eggs. Thanks to a branching timeline and events which change as a consequence of your decisions, something we discuss in our The Casting of Frank Stone review, you might miss a few on your first or even second playthrough, so we’ve done our best to compile a list of DBD easter eggs in The Casting of Frank Stone right here – be warned, though, there are a couple of spoilers in here.
The Casting of Frank Stone DBD easter eggs
Here are just some of the countless Dead by Daylight easter eggs we’ve found in The Casting of Frank Stone so far:
- Menu Music
- Sound effects
- Relliks
- The Clown Rellik
- A Survivor’s Theme
- Lerys Memorial Institute
- Smiley face pin
- Afterpiece Tonic
- Curiosity shop
- Diorama
- The Hillbilly clock
- The Artist painting
- Stained glass window
- Reliquary gate
- Reliquary
- Generators
- Trickster music box
- The woods
- Plunderer’s Instinct
Menu Music
Some of these easter eggs are more obvious than others, and this is one that hits DBD fans in the face as soon as you load into the game. The menu music in The Casting of Frank Stone is a variant on the Survivor’s Theme, AKA the Dead by Daylight lobby music. In Dead by Daylight, this lobby music changes to match characters and chapters, and we can imagine the Frank Stone menu soundtrack being used for the Frank Stone DBD chapter when it inevitably arrives.
Sound effects
Like the menu music, many sound effects are obvious references to Dead by Daylight fans, taken directly from DBD. When you pick up an item, you hear the same sound alert you do when collecting an item in a DBD match. When you get a skill check, you hear the same audio cue, and the same goes for when you hit said skill check.
Relliks
All of the The Casting of Frank Stone Relliks are based on Dead by Daylight killers, which again might not be obvious to those who aren’t fans of the source material, but they’re still incredibly cool collectibles either way.
The 12 Relliks are all original killers from the game, for obvious reasons, but, sadly, there are a few missing faces, including The Blight and The Unknown.
The Clown Rellik
The Clown Rellik isn’t just an easter egg in and of itself, but if you look closely, you’ll see a collection of real human fingers attached to the doll. This is a reference to The Clown’s backstory, in which he is known to cut off and collect the fingers of his victims. Actually, this is even part of his mori – his unique killing animation – in which he cuts a finger off the DBD survivor at his mercy.
A Survivor’s Theme
Now we can all play the iconic survivor’s theme on piano. Early into the game, your player character picks up a piece of sheet music titled “A Survivor’s Theme”.
Don’t worry if you aren’t musically inclined and can’t already tell from the notes written – Db, C, Db, Bb, your character can play the tune on a piano in the next room, instantly recognizable as the key notes in the haunting DBD lobby tune.
Lerys Memorial Institute
A throwaway comment made by Stan during his monologue about the Murder Mill movie makes reference to one Lerys Memorial Institute. One of the Dead by Daylight maps, the institute is, according to Stan, used by the CIA for “enhanced interrogation” of those who have watched Murder Mill and have had or witnessed adverse reactions.
Smiley face pin
The smiley face pin actually appears twice, as we expand on further own, but if you’re looking around for artifacts and collectibles, you might find the pin itself, which is an item owned by DBD killer quad The Legion, and also appears as an add-on for their power.
Afterpiece Tonic
This one’s a true easter egg, as the subtle reference is easy for even fans of Dead by Daylight to miss. Afterpiece Tonic seems to be some sort of pop available in the 1980s era of The Casting of Frank Stone, advertised not only inside the drugstore, but on its neon sign outside.
In Dead by Daylight, Afterpiece Tonic is the name of the purple poison used by The Clown to impair survivor’s vision and make them scream. “One sip, and you’ll be hooked.”
The Curiosity Shop
The Curiosity Shop is home to a range of Dead by Deadlight references. As soon as you enter, you can pick up a familiar white bunny mask, just like that worn by The Huntress. For reasons we’ll get to later, this is presumably a replica.
Head to the back left corner of the shop, and you’ll find a taxidermy crow, which is probably a reference to The Artist and her dark backstory. Carmina Mora was devastated by the death of her beloved little brother, and tried to follow him into the afterlife on the morning of this birthday. In that moment, a murder of crows came to her and stared into her soul, changing her mind and ultimately saving her life. As such, the rest of her DBD lore, and her power, are inspired by her crows.
Finally, Wraith’s weapon, Azeroth’s Axe, can also be found in the curiosity shop, but only in one eventuality. Choose to visit the curiosity shop first, and you won’t see the axe. However, if you visit the drugstore followed by the curiosity shop, a cutscene plays out in which Jaime picks up Azeroth’s Axe in defense of what he fears to be the killer owner of the store, or, as he names them, the “Tchotchke Chopper”.
Diorama
A diorama upstairs from the manor’s atrium features a scene depicting Coldwind Farm, the home of Maxwell Thompson Jr, AKA The Hillbilly, and one of the Dead by Daylight realms. The house itself is known as the Thompson House, and is a key feature in the Dead by Daylight map of the same name.
Next to the house in the diorama is The Hillbilly himself, wielding his cattle hammer and, in front of him, a totem with a blue glow, making it a boon totem – activated by a survivor to provide a buff, and thus why it is later snuffed out by The Hillbilly when you get the diorama to move.
The third part of the diorama is the missing tree, which doesn’t belong in Coldwind Farm, and is instead from the Forsaken Boneyard, home to The Artist.
The Hillbilly clock
Again, here’s a spoiler alert, but once you get trigger the diorama’s action, you open a secret cabinet containing another cattle hammer model. This one fits perfectly in the hand of yet another Hillbilly, this time a bronze statue with a clock, which itself holds another secret.
The Artist painting
In the same room as the diorama (and in fact containing a clue towards the chapter’s puzzle), is a painting of Carmen Mora herself, also known as The Artist, one of the Dead by Daylight killers.
Stained glass window
This one’s pretty subtle, but if you look closely at the stained glass windows in the manor, it appears as though the have the entity’s claws worked into the design. The same can be said for the glass above the front door to the manor, too.
Reliquary gate
While completing the The Casting of Frank Stone gate puzzle, you might notice some familiar designs on the three gate dials. These are all, on one way or another, a reference to Dead by Daylight.
- The Thompson House: This house was owned by The Hillbilly’s parents, located on Coldwind Farm, and appears on the first gate dial.
- Huntress’ Lullaby: Also on the first gate dial is the icon for Hex: Huntress Lullaby, one of the DBD killer perks.
- Wailing Bell: The final icon on the first dial represents the Wailing Bell, The Wraith’s power.
- Tree: The tree on the second dial is reminiscent of The Eyrie of Crows, the home map of The Artist, and home to her murder of crows. It also matches the tree statue that makes up part of the diorama.
- Play with your Food: On the second dial also appears the icon for the Michael Myers DBD perk Play with your Food, shown as a spider approaching a fly.
- Haunted Ground: The third icon on the middle dial is another DBD perk, Hex: Haunted Ground.
- Pop Goes the Weasel: A final perk icon appears on the third dial. Represented as a jack in the box, Pop Goes the Weasel is a popular generator regression perk belonging to The Clown.
- Smiley face pin: The smiley face on the third dial looks harmless enough, but is actually one of The Legion’s power add-ons, and inflicts temporary blindness on the survivor.
- Cattle hammer: Finally, the cattle hammer, as you will learn during this scene, belongs to The Hillbilly, as one of his two weapons of choice alongside a chainsaw.
Reliquary
Once you open the gate you see that, like the curiosity shop, the reliquary inside the manor is also full of DBD tidbits. For one, there’s The Huntress’ bunny mask, which is why we assume the one in the shop is a fake. Surely the real thing, if Augustine has it at all, is kept safely in her private collection.
On a table in the room lies a book called Fold of Fear, but this isn’t what we’re interested in here. As you go to interact with the book, pay attention to the tarot cards scattered nearby. One, Death, bears a picture of The Blight, while another, The Fool, features The Clown. Look really closely, and you can even see that the icons on the third card, The Wheel of Fortune, appear to be the in-game icon for the Dead by Daylight archives.
We also spotted an Akkadian Demon statue, which could allude to The Plague, another of the original Dead by Daylight killers. She, too, hails from Ancient Mesopotamia, like the mythologial Demon.
In yet another reference to The Hillbilly, who seems to be a favorite of Augustine, an open book in the reliquary makes reference to talismans, showing a picture of a heart-shaped locket. Later, you find the same locket. This is likely a reference to the Coldwind Farm map offering – an item which increases your chance of playing in a certain map in Dead by Daylight. The in-game offering also depicts a heart-shaped locket, this one containing the initials E+M: Evelyn and Maxwell, The Hillbilly’s parents.
Generators
Sure, this one’s a bit on the nose, but it’s fun all the same. Of course, fixing generators is the main objective for survivors in Dead by Daylight matches. Doing so requires up to 90 seconds of your time and involves regular skill checks, or QTEs, just like you have in The Casting of Frank Stone. On a couple of occasions, the two come together, as player characters can only progress through the Cedar Steel Corp mill by repairing generators – and of course hitting skill checks in order to do so.
Trickster music box
Later into the game, you enter one of the manor’s bedrooms, in which you find a music box. This music box features a little model of The Trickster, one of the Dead by Daylight killers. Turn the music box on and the popstar-turned-killer twirls around, wielding his handful of blades. Don’t worry, though, in this case he won’t throw them at you.
The woods
HUGE SPOILER ALERT. This is a big one, so we don’t want to go into too much detail, suffice to say that the ending of The Casting of Frank Stone is basically one big DBD reference. If you can even call it that. There’s the revelation in the woods. The silhouettes (look closely). The entity. The whole damn thing.
Plunderer’s Instinct
Once you finish The Casting of Frank Stone – or if you’ve purchased the Deluxe Edition – you unlock Plunderer’s Instinct, an ability that highlights nearby trinket boxes. Rather appropriately, Plunderer’s Instinct is also the name of the DBD perk that shows the auras of nearby chests.
Now you can keep your eyes peeled for all of the The Casting of Frank Stone DBD easter eggs that Supermassive Games have snuck into the story game. As you cover every inch of the manor and the mill, you should also look out for all the Relliks and other collectible trinkets, too, for even more references for Dead by Daylight fans.