Critically acclaimed Rogue-like game Dead Cells is coming to a console near you.
Announced in a news release 🅰from French developer Motion Twin🌞, Dead Cells will be coming to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, a൩nd PlayStation 4. “We’re thrilled to finally confirm that we’ll be bringing the Dead Cells experience to console players,” said Steve F🧸ilby, one of Motion Twin’s producers. Unlike most developers, Motion Twin doesn’t have a manager or even a project lead. Everyone there is considered an equal associate taking on different roles.
If you haven’t heard of Dead Cells, you should. Since its release to Steam Early Access in May of 2017, the game has sold over 600,000 times and has an overall user score of 95%. Very few games achieve that kind of user score, wಞhich puts it up with the greats like Portal, Faster Than Light, and Borderlands 2.
In Dead Cells you assume the role a corpse animated by a collection of ce♛lls (hence the name). For some reason, this form of necromancy results in the characters head being constantly on fire, but that’s neither h🅘ere nor there.
The game is described as a “Roguemania” game, which is a cross between a Roguelite and a Metroidvania game. As with Roguelites, there is permadeath causing you to lose whatever items and money you had on you when you die, but your cells then go animate another corpse and level up with your past experience. As with Metroidvania games, your primary objective is to defeat baddies with sw💎ords, spells, and other stuff as you explore a constantly shifting castle.
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With the announcement that the game is coming to console Motion Twin is under additional pressure to release the game fully on Steam. “Ideally, we would like t𒁃o release all the console versions and the PC version simultaneously,” Filby told in an interview.
While he admits that getting a full PC launch at t🌳he same time as a console portꦫ is a “logistical challenge,” Filby remained optimist🍎ic, saying they “should be coming out over the summer.”
But if you’re a PC player, it might be a good idea to pick the game up no𒆙w. Dead Cells was priced at $16.99 when iౠt was released last May, then climbed to its current $19.99. The console port might push that price higher even higher, according to Filby, so snap up Dead Cells while the price is right.