Disclaimer: Dead Cells is still in Early Access.
Dead Cells is a rougelite game by Motion Twin. In it you are a headless prisoner who is trying to escape the prison? Or should I say you are a head using a body? Why are you escaping? How you got there? Those are question not explained by the game - the mysteries of Early Access.
Despite being in early access Dead
Cells offers quite the finished product gameplay-wise and lacks only more
levels, story and real end. What it offers? Read on.
As in every roguelike/lite you have only one life. When you die, you start from the beginning and you lose money, stat upgrades and any items you have found or bought during the run. But Dead Cells also has a progression system to make the grind easier. When you kill monsters, you will get souls and between every two levels you will meet The Collector and be able to permanently upgrade items. After that you will be able to fully heal and fill your life flask (in case you have unlocked it) and then next level. As you can see almost classical roguelite formula.
Unlike many games of the genre Dead
Cells is not turn based. Instead it is metroidvania action-platformer combined
with souls-like combat. So be ready to do some dodging! Honestly while I am
huge turn-based fan the action platforming is done really well in the game and
makes the grind not so tedious as you zap through the first levels and get to
the interesting part quicker. Not to mention that the platformer gives freedom
for a lot more interesting boss fights.
Conclusions
It is impossible for Dead Cells to
not remind you of the Souls series as it shares a lot of similarities to the evillest
game ever (which is not a roguelike). In each fight, you should be careful.
Boss or not everything can kill you easily because of this there is a lot of
dodging. The boss fights are hard, but epic. And probably the best, bearing in
mind you will see the same zones again and again, you can skip big chunks of
the levels just by running, ignoring the enemies and mini bosses. In the spirit
of the recently ended GDC I predict that we will see Dead Cells there as soon
as it is out.
Dead Cells has only one downside and that is
its Early Access state, because of which you do not get enough for the price (Right
now you can beat it for hour or two, the end is obviously work in progress and
if you are not a completionist you will have nothing to do once you reach the
end.). My advice is to wait until it is released and then enjoy the great game
it will be.
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