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Games Like Dead Cells
Aug 6, 2018·97% positive·
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Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Best games like Dead Cells
The best games like Dead Cells are Death's Gambit: Afterlife, Curse of the Dead Gods, NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION, Dead Estate, and Deadlight. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 97% positive across 149k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Action, Indie, Adventure, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $24.99 pricing signal.
- Death's Gambit: Afterlife - Death's Gambit: Afterlife is closely similar to Dead Cells because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Metroidvania, Pixel Graphics.
- Curse of the Dead Gods - Curse of the Dead Gods is closely similar to Dead Cells because both are Action and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Action Roguelike, Roguelike, Souls-like.
- NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION - NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is closely similar to Dead Cells because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Action Roguelike, Roguelike.
- Dead Estate - Dead Estate is closely similar to Dead Cells because both are Action and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like Action Roguelike, Pixel Graphics, Roguelike, Difficult.
- Deadlight - Deadlight is closely similar to Dead Cells because both are Action and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, 2D, Platformer.
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Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Dead Cells puts you in control of a failed alchemic experiment trying to figure out what's happening on a sprawling, ever-changing and seemingly cursed Island. Immortal but crippled, your last resort is to take over bodies in order to move, explore… and fight.
While you may well be immortal, the corpses you possess are not. Each time your host is destroyed, you will be sent back to the dungeon to find yourself a new one and start again...
Experience a Roguevania, mixing an interconnected world, branching paths and unlockable skills with the constant adrenaline-pumping threat of permadeath. No checkpoints. You either vanquish the final boss in one go or you try again. However, you keep some of your progress for successive runs new paths you’ve unlocked, access to new levels, mutations, abilities and weapons.
Tough but fair combat, responsive controls, challenging foes, and of course, the emergency panic roll to get you out of trouble make for a visceral and cathartic action game.
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