Dead Cells News

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TLDR

• New DLC coming Q1 2022 - wishlist it here and we'll love you forever!
  
• Teaser trailer out now on YouTube, check it out below
  
• DLC will be $4.99 to fund continued Dead Cells development & Motion Twin project
  
• It finishes the path started with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls, giving a new ending to the game
  
• Free updates will continue until the end of time, well for another year at the very least
  

Hey everyone,

We’re pumped to announce that our latest DLC “The Queen & the Sea” will be coming Q1 2022!

The route that we started so long ago with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls will be neatly tied off with a slightly unconventional bow. The usual two new biomes will be there, but one of them is definitely not the standard-issue Dead Cells level that you know and love...

Of course there’s also a deadly boss waiting for you at the end of the road – no prizes for guessing who that is! Oh, and if you beat them you'll be getting a whole new ending.

[previewyoutube]Teaser link[/previewyoutube]

The two new biomes are called the Infested Shipwreck and the Lighthouse - these will be a parallel to the High Peak Castle and Throne Room levels. Yep, the Hand of the King won’t be the only final challenger anymore. Before you jump on me I know the spoiler boss exists as well!

There's a couple of screenshots below to give you a taste of what's coming, and if you could wishlist the DLC for us we would be eternally grateful :)


Yes, the Beheaded is wielding a shark. No questions please.


These guys are as deadly as they look, so prepare your thumbs!


The final arena...


There’ll be new weapons & enemies to play with of course, and a new not-so-cuddly pet - we'll be putting out more details on all that as we get closer to release day.


The DLC will be $4.99 or equivalent, just like the other two. Charging this helps to support Motion Twin during the development of their next project, as well as continuing free updates of Dead Cells.


After the DLC that is exactly what we'll be doing - releasing more free stuff! And we'll continue to do that for at least another year. There's already a good chunk of content planned and being worked on right now with some fresh ideas in play, so you shouldn't be getting bored with us anytime soon :D


Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

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Sketch of the Queen done by one of our alpha testers, SaltyFinalBoss


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Hey everyone,

Hope you're enjoying the Everyone is Here update!

We'd just like to ask if you could take a minute to vote for us in the Steam Awards in the Labor of Love category.

Dead Cells is currently up to it's 26th update, over 4 years since our Early Access release and most of those updates were free, so we think we're allowed to shoot for this one!

Have a great weekend :)

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

Hey Mac users,

We managed to figure out what was going wrong and we've just pushed a fix to let you back in to Dead Cells.

Enjoy the new update and please post a comment here if there's anything wrong :)

Thanks for your patience and sorry again for the missed days of Dead Cells!

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

Hey,

If you noticed a tiny patch we've just pushed out a hotfix for a few small problems.

Crash & serious bugs:

• Fix broken animation with Drifter weapons on Scarecrow, Santa, Cultist and Snowman skins
  
• Fix Guacamelee lore room not appearing if the option "deactivate lore rooms" is activated
  
• Fix Crash with Pure Nail weapon in backpack
  
• Fix Crash with Skull Bone weapon during whirlwind attack
  

Gameplay bugs:

• Fix Giant Staff weapon parry
  
• Fix Face Flask not applying damage buff
  
• Fix Face Flask breaking kill streak
  
• Fix heal on Parry cooldown
  
• Fix mod related UI input scheme
  
• Fix Flawless Giant skin colors
  

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

Punishing permadeath platformer Dead Cells (our pick for Best Roguelike back in 2018) just got a new update that adds skins, weapons, and skills from other indie games that have cores of similar hardness. To unlock the outfits you'll need to complete challenges found via a book of clues in the opening area, and the rest can be found in new lore rooms scattered throughout the levels...
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