Dead Cells News

Hey friends!

It's here, it's crawled out of the alpha dungeon, made it though the beta gauntlet and now it's here for you all to play, Rise of the Giant, our first free DLC has fiiiinally made it to you after a slightly longer than planned gestation period.

https://youtu.be/wc6ZpTwN2cI

• A brand new level for those who have finished the game at least once (remember we lowered the base difficulty significantly in update 11). This is a kind of cavern, a deep dark hole filled with traps and other nasty surprises.
  
  
• A new Boss! Guess what it is... Go on, guess! If you said "it's the giant" then you're wrong! It's Kratos!!!!!!! We teamed up with Sony Santa Monica to bring everyb.... Nah it's the Giant. And guess where he's hidden!!! Go on, guess!
  
  
  
  
• The next big thing we've got for yo is the Custom Mode that many have been clamouring for, is now available WITHOUT requiring you to beat the game. If that's not quite what you wanted, keep complaining, we're a little slow on the uptake, but we do listen, even it we're maybe a little deaf in the right ear...
  
  
• A shiny new SKINNING SYSTEM, that's right, skin the creatures you find and wear them like it was Silence of the Lambs up in here! All for the very reasonable price of $19.99 per loot box where you've got 99% chance of getting absolutely nothing!!! Oh wait, what!? You just play the game and unlock them for free? BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR SHARE PRICE!?
  
  
• Ok enough college sarcasm, next up we have 10 new enemies! Some of them will obviously be waiting for you in the new levels, though many of them have been spread out through the NG+ difficulty levels. They're waiting for you to roll up thinking you own the game...
  
  
• 3 new skills, including a flying pet thing with extra cuteness and 10 new weapons including the completely original Boi Axe! Now with extra BOI!
  
  
  
  
• The Hunters Grenade door has been replacecd by the Spcicalist's Shop. Essentially a few knick knacks for those advanced players who know what's up, and some pweeeety skins for the rest of us.
  
  
• Oh and there may be another bunch of hidden stuff yadi yadi yada floating around in the game. No biggy.
  
  
• Alright that's it, i'm done. You can check out the rest of the gazillion changes you've helped us make over here in the patch notes.
  

I really cannot stress enough how important your continued feedback, contribution and support, each and every one of you, has been to bringing Dead Cells to where it is today.

We said that we were going to do this free DLC quite a while ago, something of a thank you present to the community, and we meant it. So thank you all! Ok enough mushiness and tears, this is NOT goodbye.



Here's a little of what we're planning at the moment and where we're heading:

• Right now we're working on building out the team a bit more, we'll have news on how that's coming along and how we're planning on doing things as we move forward soon.
  
  
• We are however building some new monsters, some little guys that may or may not have leaked a little bit already
• cough cough over here cough cough*
  
  
• We're going to keep adding content to the game for as long as it makes sense to do so, that's to say, for as long as enough people keep buying and playing the game to support the development costs and make us some more money for our next game.
  
  
• There WILL be a next game... If you didn't see the Redbull documentary that they did on us, check it out, because you'll learn that we're really just all about games, and we'll be doing it until the arthritis kicks in and we physically can't.
  
  Before you ask...... NO, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE NEXT GAME WILL BE. We are going to go through a really fun period of building demos, iterating and arguing over why roguelites are so yesterday and therefore we should definitely do another. We'll keep you posted as soon as we have things to share, and maybe even before we should.
  
  Super top secret non-existant co-op royal battle of the bush mode, with machine gun, and frying pan.
  
  
• We'd like to try and figure out if we can build some insane modes for Dead Cells, we don't know how yet, but we're imagining a sort of Skunk-works team secluding themselves in a bubble for months on end without showering, with the aim of emerging with something incredible! That or a whole bunch of take-out boxes and a smell to put the Guillain's pile of rotting corpses to shame.
  

We've always tried to be open and honest and the success of Dead Cells will not change that one bit, so stay tuned.

Oh and since you all asked once or twice... a minute. The console releases will follow ASAP, I'd say around the end of the month early May, though as it's not 100% up to us (thank you certification period) we'll just do our best and officially say "soon". Also next time I'll jsut include this kind of useful information from the get go...

To finish up with this public safety announcement, here's some more community artwork:

Noir Cells by @LeoTeEdglord

Freaky realistic cells... By ExCharny

KDA strike a pose! By Hobo_hellorville

Heya everyone,

We hope you're all doing well. On our side, the DLC is going live tomorrow and we made a second animated trailer to celebrate! Really hope you will like it, and for the ones testing the new content on the beta branch, some parts should feel a bit familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLz1r_sCeXc

The music, done by Dead Cells' sound composer Yoann "Valmont" Laulan, is also available on Youtube and Bandcamp.

Last thing, we're at Pax East this year, so if you're around, come say hi and test the DLC!

Cheers,
The MT Team

Community highlights:

Redditor 1sombras1 's empathy gave birth to this awesome drawing of our new favorite boss



Thanks @FogRyu for choosing Dead Cells as an inspiration for its #pixel_dailies soumission!

Hey all,

Our first free DLC is going to be coming to the main branch on the 28th of March! The Rise of the Giant DLC is the fulfilment of a promise that we made during our early access to continue to support the game and to continue to provide content for as long as you guys are interested in playing it.

I'm not going to say a terrible lot more about what's in the game, so as not to spoil it too much for anyone who's waiting for it to hit the main branch, but suffice to say that there's new levels, new bosses and a whole bunch more!

In the meantime for the curious, you can checkout the patch notes here, or test it yourself in the beta branch of the base game.

We're also super stoked to present to you a little accolade trailer that a friend of our made for us. It's been an incredible ride since way back in May 2017 when we first showed off another rogue-lite, pixel art, souls-wannabee to you all and since then we've continued to work to make the game bigger and better. The trailer shows off a few of the high points so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X56EtuqXfek

Stay tuned for more info as we polish this build and get it out to you all as our first DLC.

The MT team.

Hello everyone,

Hope you're doing well! As we told you a while ago, the team is working on the upcoming free DLC we promised. We're finally reaching the final phases before we ready to publish it. However, as always, we're looking to get as most feedback as we can from Dead Cells' players. And, well, since there is a lot of new content, we need your help now more than ever to tweak, hunt the bugs, and balance it.

The new content has been built to give more depth to Dead Cells' end game. Hence, one of the new biome and its boss won't be accessible before you beat the game a first time. A fifth boss cell is now available... I will let you deduce where to find the second boss and biome are hiding themselves!

We're also improving the end game by making the Dead Cells' experience in Boss Cells 1 to 5 more unique and interesting. New ennemies and new rewards (skins and weapons) are awaiting the braves ready to rise to the gigantic* challenge.

The patch notes are available here.

Let us know what you think in the comment down there, or, even better, on Reddit where we're going to open a specific thread dedicated to the discussion (pinned).

How do I get in?

To access the ALPHA follow these instructions:
Go to your Steam game library.
Right click on Dead Cells and click "properties".
Select the tab "Betas".
In the first dropdown box select "Alpha - Not for the faint hearted".
Click close and wait for the upload to finish downloading.
Start playing.

WARNING:
In this version of the game you will lose your save every time we push an update, which could be pretty often! This will not impact your old save files. You will be able to import the old ones in to this version, but not export them. This way you can play with everything you've already unlocked, without fear of frying your saves.

If you are still worried about losing you save then feel free to head over here: "steam\userdata\\588650\remote" and copy the files somewhere safe.

There is a special slot only for saves from this version that will appear.

We hope to read you soon!
The MT team



Quick (but great) animation by Karlsia.



A tribute to ValmontDeRag's cat, by @hellorville



Mr Prisoner, by @cellophasis





*Motion Twin denies all responsibility for this joke. Any complaint must be address to Steve.