Fog Forge

FogForge

Two free Windows tools for Dead by Daylight. They read the pixels on your screen and nothing else.

Fog Scout Fog Translate
Dead by Daylight match on Rotten Fields. Fog Scout shows the callout map with the round timer at the left edge and system values at the right edge. Dead by Daylight match on Dead Dawg Saloon with the Fog Scout callout map at the left edge.
Map on display: Rotten Fields
Fog Scout in custom games at 3440×1440. The game runs in 16:9 here, so the map sits in the black bar next to the picture.

Map overlay

Fog Scout

When a match starts, Fog Scout reads the map name at the bottom left of the screen and puts the matching callout map on top of the game. After the round the map goes away again.

Text recognition runs on your PC. Map detection and the overlay open no internet connection.

Download Fog Scout

Windows installer from the latest GitHub release

Not signed: SmartScreen shows "More info", then "Run anyway". Asks for administrator rights once. Set DBD to Windowed Fullscreen.

Detection, measured

map pictures in English and German, 720p to 4K and ultrawide, all correct
112/112
false alarms on 319 screens without a banner
0
of 120 unknown map names assigned to a wrong map
0
per picture at 1440p
≈0.1 s

Tested with real screenshots and rebuilt banners on real game backgrounds. Synthetic tests do not replace a real round.

What it does

  • Automatic callout maps56 map pictures, layouts like Coal Tower II told apart, in a click-through window.
  • Server regionChoose which regions you connect to and see the game server you are on.
  • Match statisticsRole, killer, kills, escapes and bloodpoints per round, kept on your PC.
  • Recording with OBSStarts and labels recordings per match, with a clip editor for the highlights.
  • Discord and SpotifyOptional: show map and role as Discord status, see your Spotify queue.
  • German and EnglishFollows the Windows language, switchable in the settings.

Inside the app

Fog Scout Maps page: all callout maps grouped by realm, with rounds and average kills per map.

Live chat translation

Fog Translate

Translates the Dead by Daylight chat while you play. It reads any script, including Cyrillic, Korean, Japanese and Chinese, and shows the translation in a small click-through window on top of the game.

A standalone program. It runs next to Fog Scout or without it.

Download Fog Translate

Windows installer from the latest GitHub release

Not signed: SmartScreen shows "More info", then "Run anyway". No administrator rights needed.

Dead by Daylight lobby chat with messages in German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Fog Translate shows each one in English with its language and the original text in a panel at the top left.
Test messages in a custom game: German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, each with its language tag and the original below.

How it works

  1. Mark the chat area once. Drag a box around the chat. The area is stored relative to the game window, so it survives a different window size.
  2. Press Start. The program looks at that area twice a second and only reacts when the text has changed.
  3. Read the translation. Language, name, translation and the original in small print appear in the overlay and fade after 25 seconds.

One window

Fog Translate window: target language, service, model, API key, daily limit, overlay text size and display time, and a notice about what is sent to the service.
Target language, service, model, daily limit and overlay settings. The request counter and cost estimate sit at the bottom.

Pick a service

ServiceYou needCostYour data
ClaudeAPI keyabout 1 cent per request or lesssent to Anthropic
Geminifree API keyfree tiersent to Google
Ollamalocal vision model, GPU with 8 GB or morefreestays on your PC

The picture sent to a service can show other players' names and messages. API keys are stored encrypted with Windows DPAPI.

Fair play

Built to stay out of the game

Both tools were designed around one rule: do not interact with Dead by Daylight. They are still unofficial. Behaviour Interactive has not approved map overlays or region tools, so you use them at your own risk.

  • ReadsScreen pixels, the way OBS or Discord screen sharing does, and window information.
  • NeverKeyboard or mouse input to the game, or any automation of game actions.
  • NeverAccess to the game process: no memory reading, no injection.
  • NeverReading or changing game files.
  • NeverHidden information. The callout map is a static community map, with no generators or positions.
  • ChangesOnly if you use the server region feature: the Windows hosts file, which "Allow all" puts back.