After a few months of relaxed silence from developers Motion Twin, Dead Cells is getting a new update next month—its 20th since launch in 2018. The new update will release in mid-December and will include "little stocking fillers to keep you entertained for a bit longer" like a new weapon, new enemy, new lore room, new skins, new things to eat, and "A few other changes that we're still testing so we can't confirm them yet."
It's a pleasant surprise, as I'm not sure anyone should expect to get yet more new material for a small indie game two and a half years after its release, even one as popular as Dead Cells. Earlier this year Motion Twin released the announced that the game had sold more than 3 million copies.
Dead cells is an action-platformer game which is described by its Steam tags as "Roguevania Souls-like Roguelike" which is definitely gibberish if you're a time traveler from the year 2005 and/or don't play a lot of video games, but in short just means it's 2D, hard, has a high skill ceiling, and you die a lot.
It's a good game, much-loved by its community and was well-received critically on release in 2018. We gave it a 90, with Chris Thursten the hardest games on PC since.
