Dead Cells is an action-packed roguelike game offered by Playdigious. Play as a headless character who comes to life each time he dies with a new starting and find out what happened to you and the place you are in.
Gameplay
In this game, you are a result of a failed alchemic experiment and thrown into prison full of monsters & undead. You are a headless character who comes to life. You will explore prison, castle, clock tower and many other locations to escape and find out what happened. You will face many types of undead, minions & monsters. Each one has a unique attack pattern. Learn them and use weapons or skills to kill them. You will also meet many characters that help you to unlock new weapons and upgrade them. Pick up scrolls to upgrade your stats. Each time you die, you will come back to life. But you will have to start from the beginning and it will not be the same as before. Levels change with each death and you will also lose some cells.
Controls
Gameplay may be tricky with the changing levels with each death, but controls are very easy to understand. It has a movement pad on the left side of the screen. On the right side, it has Interact, jump & dash buttons and 4 empty buttons. Two buttons are for weapons and two are for skills. When you pick weapons & skills, they are filled in these buttons. Tap on the button to use the desired weapon or skill. The Interact button is used to open gates, pick up items or talk to others. On the top right corner, you can see the mini-map. Tap it to open the full map. On the top left corner, there is your HP bar and HP potion button below it. Tap and hold the potion to use it & refill your HP. You can also enable auto-hit and swipe to dodge.
Equipment
There are mainly 3 types of equipment you use in the game: Weapons, Skills & Amulets.
Weapons: Weapons are best at dealing great damage without cooldown effects. Each weapon has a unique moveset. You can pick upto 2 weapons. High quality weapons deal special effects too like bleeding, knock back, stun, freezing etc. Weapons are divided into 3 categories: melee, ranged and shields. Choose any weapon types according to your playstyle.
Skills: Skills don’t have great damage like weapons, but are good at controlling enemies and affecting groups of enemies. In skills, there are bombs, turrets, traps and special powers like tornado, vampirism, knife dance, phaser etc. Skills have a cooldown period so you have to wait before using it again. You can have a maximum 2 skills.
Amulets: Amulets are the items that grant passive effects. You can equip only one amulet.
You can find the only unlocked items in the levels. Find blueprints in the chests or by defeating enemies to unlock new weapons & skills. When you find a blueprint, go to the collector and spend cells to unlock it.
Resources
There are mainly two main resources: gold and cells. Gold it used to buy items in the level and to upgrade the weapons & skills. You can collect gold by killing enemies and opening chests. Cells are used to unlock new weapons and skills. Cells are also needed to upgrade the power level of the weapons.
