Posted on: January 2, 2025
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the perfect game
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Dead Cells
Description
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Roguelite? Metroidvania? Roguevania!
You grew up with the roguelikes, witnessed the rise of the roguelites and even the birth of the roguelite-lites? We'd now like to present for your consideration our RogueVania, the illegitimate child of a modern Roguelite (Rogue Legacy, Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, Spelunky, etc.) and an old-school MetroidVania (Castlevania: SotN and its ilk).
Features:
- RogueVania: The progressive exploration of an interconnected world, with the replayability of a rogue-lite and the adrenaline pumping threat of permadeath.
- 2D Souls-lite Action: Tough but fair combat, more than fifty weapons and spells with unique gameplay, and of course, the emergency panic roll to get you out of trouble.
- Nonlinear progression: Sewers, Ossuary or Remparts? Once unlocked, special permanent abilities allow you to access new paths to reach your objective. Opt for the path that suits your current build, your play style or just your mood.
- Exploration: Secret rooms, hidden passages, charming landscapes. Take a moment to stroll the towers and breath in that fresh sea mist infused air...
Interconnected levels and progressive unlocking of access to the island provides you with a real incentive to explore your surroundings. Add in a degree of evolution for your character and permanent weapon upgrades and you can see where Dead Cells borrows from the long line of MetroidVanias that precede it.
At the end of the day though, it’s YOUR skills as a player that matter most! Roguelites are about constantly getting better, until what was an insurmountable obstacle becomes a walk in the park. Unforgiving combat wed to the absence of any kind of safety net makes for an adrenalin pumping ride each and every run and unrivaled replayability.
Dead Cells left In Development on August 7th 2018 and comes with:
- 14 Levels - Each one with its own atmosphere, foes and secrets to discover.
- 3 Bosses - Made by the most sadistic of the devs, raised on the salt of the testers.
- 60 or so weapons and skills - Spears, swords, bows, freeze blast, etc.
- 4 special powers, unlocking new areas and paths (metroidvania gear lock items).
- 1 epic responsive, fluid and fun to play combat system.
- 1 Daily Run Mode Complete with leaderboards for lording it over your mates.
- Hours of fun (depending on your skill, anything from 10 to 30 hours or more).
- A few rage-quits, Ok a lot of rage quits… But you’ll git gud… Eventually.
Popular achievements
Finally, a moment of rest...
Reach the Black Bridge for the first time.
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52.93%
Please leave your shoes at the entrance.
Reach the Castle for the first time.
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37.26%
Tic… Toc…
Reach the Clock Tower for the first time!
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42.6%
Love the serenity...
Reach the Promenade of the Condemned for the first time.
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61.78%
Afraid of the dark?
Reach the Forgotten Sepulcher for the first time!
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36.69%
Smells like burned flesh
Reach the Ossuary for the first time.
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39.1%
A room with a view!
Reach the Ramparts for the first time.
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55.72%
What's that funky smell?
Reach the Toxic Sewers for the first time.
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54.39%
My fish is fresh!
Reach the Stilt Village for the first time.
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48.48%
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14 hMain
31 h Main + Sides
90 h Completionist
21 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
PC Gamer
90/100
A stellar action platformer with gorgeous presentation and excellent combat. Punishing but worth it.
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Recommended
The Metroidvania at its best: a swaggering role-playing beat-'em-up that's very easy on the eyes and dense with secrets.
Read full review »IGN
9.5/10
Dead Cells fuses breakneck motion with an emphasis on risk-and-reward for an incredibly engaging action-platformer.
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Posted on: July 11, 2025
Kioubrick
Verified ownerGames: 27 Reviews: 1
That's a good one
If you like rogue likes you will like this one
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Posted on: January 14, 2018
Early Access review
Tricky89
Verified ownerGames: 49 Reviews: 1
AWESOME LIKE HELL
Only one word to describe this game: AWESOME! It´s the game in a whole lot of time that made me question every AAA title coming out. The quality for a in dev game is unbelievably good. Just buy the game and show the devs the respect they honestly deserve!
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Posted on: August 11, 2018
Yfisu
Verified ownerGames: 69 Reviews: 2
Fun even for casual gamers
Lots of fun even for more casual gamers. An interesting pattern of keeping progression and losing it. The music is great. It feels kind of like Pandora's Tower taken to a more literal platformer level.
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Posted on: November 25, 2021
dozah
Games: 141 Reviews: 38
RNG is Unkind
Gotta reign in on the gushing reviews to say; repeatedly I give up a run in frustration because the game deigns not to drop any weapons and I'm stuck with some lvl 1 sandals for the entire run. There are 1 or 2 OP weapons out of a pool of 100 weapons and if the game decides not to generate one of them at a high enough level, dps drops off and progression is futile. The 'best' melee weapon is a bow(?) and the 'best' ranged weapon is a whip(?). There are 3 NPC's you interact with between every stage and not one of them can offer what your character most needs - a reliable way to upgrade their weapon, and give some choice to how a player builds for that run that isn't entirely dependent on random generation. Couple that with inadequate deadzone calibration on the movement thumbstick, resulting in your character often turning to face the wrong direction to use an attack when you release the thumbstick, and I'm left rather mystified at the seeming inability for gamers to properly critique these products.
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