You can tell a game is amazing when you have a hard time putting it down, continually making excuses for “just one more round,” or sitting down to play a match or two and suddenly it’s midnight. Dead Cells is the first game in a long time that had me staying up well past my bedtime constantly looking at the clock attempting to justify those extra 30 minutes of playtime instead of going to sleep. Dead Cells is a 2D side-scrolling action game developed by French developer Motion Twin. Marketing itself as a “Roguevania,” it combines exploration and platforming from the Metroidvania genre with Rogue-like elements such as permadeath and procedural generation. There isn’t much in the way of story. You play as a headless…

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