Video games used to thrive on their iterative feedback loops: a short run, from which you’d learn new skills, then repeat to put those skills into practice and hopefully get a bit further. It’s a ...

Dead Cells, released in 2018, is one of the best roguelikes ever—"a stellar action platformer with gorgeous presentation and excellent combat," we said in our 90% review, a reputation that only grew ...

October 27, 2025: We've changed the headline of this story to better reflect developer MotionTwin's quote. "We are still very, very proud of the project," artist and level designer Gwen Massé says of ...

When your beloved indie hits the mainstream in a big way, every player wants a say in what you do next. That was certainly the case for Motion Twin, the developer behind Dead Cells, which has been a ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

The Prisoner—also known as the Beheaded—from Dead Cells slashes into BlazBlue Entropy Effect today! This crossover introduces the Prisoner as a fully playable character alongside an exclusive ...

Most game fans have probably played both a Metroidvania and a roguelike before. Metroidvanias are classic, typically 2D games with interconnected maps, locked away by hidden traversal powers. Some ...

However, if you look at Dead Cells – which launched into early access back in 2017 – the full launch arrived alongside ports to PS4, Xbox, and Switch versions of the game, so hopefully we'll see the ...

Dead Cells comes in a suitably coffin-heavy box which, once you slide off the lid, greets you with a series of instructions on how to organize the contents. This involves sorting through a tower of ...

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