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Dead Cells

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Released Aug 6, 2018Overwhelmingly Positive · 97% of 157.1KPEGI 16≈ 22 h to beat
Steam Deck VerifiedActionAdventureIndieRoguelikeMetroidvaniaAction Roguelike
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Dead Cells
Developer: Motion Twin
Publisher: Motion Twin
Dead Cells
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About Dead Cells

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Dead Cells

Dead Cells puts you in control of a failed alchemic experiment trying to figure out what's happening on a sprawling, ever-changing and seemingly cursed Island. Immortal but crippled, your last resort is to take over bodies in order to move, explore… and fight.

Dead Cells

While you may well be immortal, the corpses you possess are not. Each time your host is destroyed, you will be sent back to the dungeon to find yourself a new one and start again...

Dead Cells

Experience a Roguevania, mixing an interconnected world, branching paths and unlockable skills with the constant adrenaline-pumping threat of permadeath. No checkpoints. You either vanquish the final boss in one go or you try again. However, you keep some of your progress for successive runs new paths you’ve unlocked, access to new levels, mutations, abilities and weapons.

Dead Cells

Tough but fair combat, responsive controls, challenging foes, and of course, the emergency panic roll to get you out of trouble make for a visceral and cathartic action game.

Story

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The Prisoner, an amorphous creature capable of possessing dead bodies, awakens in the depths of an island prison with no memory. A soldier tells the Prisoner they can no longer die. Through repeated escape attempts, the Prisoner learns that the island was once a powerful kingdom brought to ruin when a plague called "The Malaise" transformed most of its citizens into mutated monsters. After escaping the prison depths, the Prisoner resolves to kill the island's reclusive King, believing that his death will change something on the island. Fighting through plague-infested regions, the Prisoner reaches the throne room and slays the comatose monarch, only for the King's corpse to explode violently, destroying the Prisoner's host body. The head crawls through a fountain drain that leads back to the prison, where the cycle begins again.

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Game details

Developers
Motion Twin
Publishers
Motion Twin
Release date
Aug 6, 2018
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike, Metroidvania, Action Roguelike, Pixel Graphics, 2D, Souls-like, Roguelite, Difficult, Hack and Slash, Replay Value, Platformer, Singleplayer, Roguevania, Dark Fantasy, Atmospheric, Procedural Generation, Funny
Modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
121 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, Remote Play, Trading cards, Steam Workshop
Themes
Action, Fantasy
Camera
Side view
Engine
Heaps.io

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedSupportedSupported
FrenchSupportedSupportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedSupportedSupported
ItalianSupportedSupportedSupported
GermanSupportedSupportedSupported
Spanish (Spain)SupportedSupportedSupported
JapaneseSupportedSupportedSupported
Portuguese (Portugal)SupportedSupportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • OS *: Windows 7+
  • Processor: Intel i5+
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+

Recommended

  • OS *: Windows 7+
  • Processor: Intel i5+
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 460 / Radeon HD 7800 or better
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+

Ratings

Steam reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

97% of 157.1K

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Metacritic

89

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IGDB critics

90

12 critic scores

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Age rating

PEGI 16

Violence

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Verified

  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Shows Steam Deck button icons
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Verified
  • Steam Frame: Verified

ProtonDB: Platinum · 157 reports See reports

Native Linux version

DLC & editions

DLC

Very Positive · 89% of 578
Very Positive · 93% of 522
Very Positive · 93% of 759
Very Positive · 86% of 877

Also on Steam

  • Dead Cells: Rise of the Giant
  • Dead Cells: Soundtrack
  • Dead Cells: Demake Soundtrack
  • Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Soundtrack
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