Welcome to We Hate Backwater Swamp

Are you upset by how garbage Backwater Swamp is? You're not the only one --- Many players, Killer and Survivor alike, hate this map and want it removed from Dead by Daylight.

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is the map still bad

28 August, 2024 - Lord Alpha Rocket Launcher | 7 Comments

i barely play dbd anymore is backwater swamp still garbage

map is still bad

3 July, 2023 - Brandyn | 2 Comments

yep.

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minx 20 Sep, 2025 @ 4:47pm

When i got in chase today on this map there were no pallets left

Hex: Little Saint James 23 Aug, 2025 @ 12:47am

This map is worse then Caelid

lucrock123 23 Jun, 2025 @ 7:34pm

Backwater Swamp isn’t just bad—it’s a war crime. It’s not survivor-sided. It’s not killer-sided. It’s just suffering. It’s the only map where both roles sit back after the match and agree that no one had fun. Oh, you wanted to find totems? LMAO. Enjoy crawling through 40 square miles of identical mossy logs and big ass rocks to the devour.

And the aesthetics. It’s UGLY. It’s so ugly it feels like your screen has mildew. Everything is green and brown and ugly and foggy like you’re playing DBD without glasses. Survivors are constantly tripping on geometry while killers autoaim logs that somehow have hitboxes the size of a small country. You ever seen hatch on this map? No, you haven’t. Nobody has. Because it probably spawns outside the map with no chance of you finding it. There is no winning on this map, it still takes 15 (feels like 30) minutes of your life in Swamp Hell. Burn it, burn the map, but do NOT burn that offering.