Last week, we reported that metroidvania-ish platform roguelike Dead Cells had pushed its sixth main replace – The Hand Of The King – to public beta testing. Having recognized and smoothed out a number of preliminary points, builders Motion Twin have formally launched the brand new content material for all, together with their plans for the way forward for the sport.
I mentioned that the brand new Castle zone and the accompanying Hand of the King boss had a definite endgame really feel to them, and it will appear that assertion was on the cash. While there could also be some minor patches between right here and there, Update 7, every time it comes, will mark the tip of core improvement, and Dead Cells’ exit from Early Access.
In our previous coverage of Update 6, we coated the lengthy and in need of the brand new replace, however Motion Twin determine that typically it’s higher to clarify issues in video kind, reasonably than drive individuals to slog by way of the in depth patch notes.
The improvement roadmap as talked about within the video may be discovered here. The greatest, most essential element is point out that not lengthy after the V1.zero launch of the sport, a content-heavy chunk of free DLC is on its method. Unless a True Final Boss finds its method into the subsequent handful of smaller deliberate updates, it appears that evidently the Hand Of The King goes to be capping off the sport till that DLC lands, though he appears to be like huge and difficult sufficient to make the sport really feel fairly full as-is.
More importantly, the V1.zero launch of the sport will embody The Lore, capitals and all. Up till this level, there have solely been the faintest bits of Dark Souls-ish story hooks connected to the sport, so it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how far more overtly they inform the story of The Prisoner and his gloopy, detachable head within the framework of a bigger, higher-stakes fantasy story. They hope to have all this and the free DLC squared away by the tip of the yr. From there? Who is aware of – I doubt anybody at Motion Twin has even dreamt that far.
Dead Cells is accessible on Steam or by way of Humble for £17/$20, minus a beneficiant 33% low cost on Steam as a part of the Midweek Madness offers.
