Jan 6, 2022

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Hey everyone,

The Queen and the Sea DLC is available now! Finish the path we started with The Bad Seed & Fatal Falls DLCs and try to reach the new ending!

All that stands in your way is a monster-riddled hulk of an ancient ship, a towering lighthouse guarded by three insanely strong fighters and a final epic showdown with an old friend...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580050/Dead_Cells_The_Queen_and_the_Sea

Before we cover what you're going to find in this new content, let's take a moment to watch the latest installment of our animated trailers by Bobby Prod, featuring a battle-weary Beheaded and his new pet...

Pretty cool eh? So, what's waiting for you in the new levels?

The Infested Shipwreck

Fight your way through the bowels of a rotten shipwreck with eldritch horrors lurking behind every corner.

Platforms and sections of floor can be smashed by enemies, disrupting your movement and dumping you onto the spikes below. Armoured monsters chase you down and move vertically & horizontally with ease, letting them attack you from any direction.

Finally, no journey into a shipwreck is complete without a treasure hunt! Collect the pieces of the torn-up treasure map and put it back together to find the mythical booty...

Lighthouse

This new style of biome is more or less a vertical chase scene & several miniboss fights combined, complete with rope pulleys, breakable barriers and deadly flames!

Scaling this soaring tower will be no easy task, as you'll need to outrun rising flames from below, while fending off a trio of highly skilled warriors at the same time. Just another day on the island!

Opportunities for rest will appear, but they will be short-lived. You are being chased by relentless killers after all...

The Crown

If you manage to make it through all of that unscathed (or at least alive) you’ll end up at the summit of the lighthouse in a bid to light the beacon and escape the island. However, to accomplish this feat you'll need to triumph in a final duel against a familiar foe, who seems to know how to fight back against all your attacks...

Weapons

Nine new weapons can be won in this DLC:

- Charge enemies with the Abyssal Trident, impaling them on sharp prongs and shoving them while inflicting critical damage. Basically just messes up mobs.

- Channel your inner pirate with the Hand Hook and grab foes to swing them behind you. Very useful for throwing enemies off ledges and onto spikes.

- Throw a literal shark jaws-first at anyone who stands in your way with the Maw of the Deep, a throwable shark. Alternatively just bash them over the head with it, that works too.

- Chuck razor sharp Throwing Cards into enemies until you throw a full spray, then recall them all to do extra damage to your targets.

- The Scavenged Bombard is a big, heavy cannon that deals massive damage at the expense of rate-of-fire. You'll also need to stand pretty close to get it to fire, but it's worth it for the power of the cannonball.

- Wrecking Ball requires good timing - it's effectively just a big chunk of metal, so it takes some force to get it moving. But once it's going you'll be obliterating crowds of enemies in one throw.

- Damage scales with running speed when using the Bladed Tonfas, and you can run pretty fast in Dead Cells... This is one for the players who can clear biomes in a couple of minutes.

- Literally take enemies off their feet with the arrows fired from the Gilded Yumi. This heavy bow packs a massive punch, its arrows crashing into enemies and flinging them off-screen.

- Slice reality in two with the Queen's Rapier, if you can take it from it's owner...

- The Leghugger pet evolves from a scrappy little shrimp-thing to a much bigger shrimp-thing after feeding off the blood of enemies with it's Alien-like inner jaws. Creepy...

See some of this mighty weaponry in action in the DLC's gameplay trailer:

How much is it?

$4.99/4,99€ (or equivalent). Like our previous paid DLCs, this helps to support the ongoing free updates that we regularly put out, as well as supporting Motion Twin as they develop their next project.

If you haven’t tried the game yet and are reading this for some reason, then the main game is on sale right now with a 50% discount. A bundle of the main game and all paid DLCs is also on offer at $21.49.

If you don't have any DLCs, we're running a DLC-only bundle for the first time too at $9.99!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23769/Dead_Cells_Road_to_the_Sea_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23841/Dead_Cells_DLC_Bundle/

Please don't hesitate to give us any feedback on the DLC in the comments or on any of our social channels :)

That’s it for the post, we hope you enjoy the new content and we’ll be back very soon!

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

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Dec 16, 2021

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea DLC arrives 6th January!

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Hey everyone,

We're back with another Queen and the Sea DLC announcement - it will be available on 6th January at 9am PT/6pm CET!

With this DLC we are finishing off the path that we started years ago with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls. Ending a trilogy needs some special touches and we believe we've put quite a few in this DLC. We have an awesome new boss which we're sure will surprise you multiple times, one of the new levels is completely different to anything that you’ve seen before in Dead Cells, plus if you beat this DLC you get a brand new ending!

For a quick peek at what you'll be getting in the final chapter of the DLC trilogy, check out our new gameplay trailer:

So what exactly is in it?

We're adding two late-game biomes, which are alternative paths to High Peak Castle and Hand of the King, plus a boss biome.

The Infested Shipwreck

If the name of this biome didn't already give you a clue, you'll be fighting your way through the bowels of a rotten shipwreck with eldritch horrors lurking behind every corner. We’ve introduced some quirks to make it fresh for you guys.
There are platforms and floor sections that enemies can break, disrupting your movement and even dumping you onto the spikes below. Armoured shrimps chase you down and can move vertically and horizontally with ease, letting them attack you from any direction. Anchor throwers…throw anchors at you, who’d have thought it!

To combat this terrible threat, you'll gain access to a formidable arsenal of nautical weapons such as a trident, a pirate hook and a... shark?

We're also introducing another pet in the form of the Leghugger, a not-so-cute armoured shrimp thing with an insatiable hunger for flesh and a tendency for sudden growth spurts.

Finally, no journey into a shipwreck is complete without a treasure hunt! Collect the pieces of the torn-up treasure map and put it back together to find the mythical booty...

Lighthouse

Find your way through the shipwreck and you'll reach the base of the lighthouse. We promised you something different with one of the biomes and now it's the time to reveal what that is: the lighthouse is more or less a vertical chase scene & several miniboss fights combined, complete with rope pulleys, breakable barriers and deadly flames!
Scaling this soaring tower will be no easy task, as you'll need to outrun rising flames from below. While fending off a trio of highly skilled warriors. At the same time. Just another day on the island!

Opportunities for rest will appear, but they will be short-lived. You are being chased by relentless killers after all...

The Crown

Beat the final challenge to discover a brand new ending...

Wishlist

To get an amazingly useful alert when the DLC is available, you can wishlist it and Steam will send you an email as soon as it's live:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580050/Dead_Cells_The_Queen_and_the_Sea/

Bundles

Seeing as this DLC is finishing off the trilogy we started with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls, we will be releasing a discounted DLC-only bundle as well as the usual base game/DLC and base game/DLC/OSTs bundles.
So if you've been waiting to buy a chunk of DLC (or the base game), January will be a pretty good time to take the plunge!

We'll be back with the DLC release, but keep an eye on our social media for some DLC teasers over the holiday period. Speaking of, have a great holiday!

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

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Nov 30, 2021

Dead Cells: The Queen & the Sea DLC is coming early 2022!

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Key art by the legendary Michel Donzé

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.

Teaser link

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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Nov 22, 2021

Everyone is Here update is available!

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Hey everyone,

Surprise! A new update is available ːdcshockedː

Well maybe it's not so much of a surprise if you've been following our social media for the last 2 weeks...

Anyway, this time around we're stoked to introduce weapons, skills and skins from some fellow indie studios, who kindly let us add a little taste of their games to Dead Cells!

How do you get this free stuff?

You'll find a book of clues in the opening area - figure out the riddles within and complete the challenges to unlock fresh outfits!

You'll also find lore rooms dotted around the place, hiding bizarre and powerful weapons from other worlds...

If you want the full details of everything right now then check out the patchnotes and the little summary below, if you want to keep some mystery then download the update and get into it!

Hollow Knight

The Knight was a bit too shy to show themself, so you won't be seeing them running around the island, but their trusty nail is here :)

The Pure Nail can attack upward and downward. Attacking downward while airborne causes you to bounce on your enemies, dealing critical damage.

Hyper Light Drifter

Laser guns are finally in the game! The Drifter wields their trusty energy sword/gun combo, ready to wordlessly slay more monsters.

The Hyper Light Gun marks its targets while also dealing damage. The Sword deals critical damage to the marked targets, increasing with the number of gun marks on the target. Sword hits also recharge the gun's ammo, which doesn't recharge passively.

Blasphemous

The Penitent One is here. Mea Culpa...

Crush the Face Flask on your forehead, dealing low damage to yourself and transforming 35 percent of your missing health into recovery.

Guacamelee

The luchador Juan arrives, with a feathery surprise up his non-existent sleeve...

Channel your chicken spirit with the Pollo Power, turning into a chicken for a few seconds while firing several explosive eggs around you.

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Tear your way through hordes of enemies as Skul, slaying mobs with a trusty bone club.

Smash enemies with a bone club. Hitting with the second attack enables a whirlwind attack that deals critical damage.

Curse of the Dead Gods

That's right, mutton chops are in Dead Cells, we have now accomplished everything that we set out to do when we started this. Shut it all down.

Slash twice with a machete. The third attack uses the pistol to bump and inflict critical damage to nearby enemies. Holding the attack button charges a slow and powerful ranged attack.

That's it for the content, there's a few of the usual QoL fixes and what not too, so check out the patchnotes if you'd like to know more about that.

If you haven't had the chance to play Curse of the Dead Gods, Skul: The Hero Slayer or Guacamelee 2, then we are running a bundle with them from 10am PT so go fill your boots and show some love for the indies!

We'll be back soon with some more news, hope you enjoy the update and as always please don't hesitate to leave us feedback here or on social media :)

Cheers,
Matt, EE & MT

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