Developers from French studios Motion Twin and Evil Empire have announced the release date of the latest update for the platform roguelike action game Dead Cells.
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According to a report in social networks Xthe 35th update, titled The End is Near, will be released on August 19. The creators also published its key image. “It will be a little strange that there are no more updates after all the ones we have released (and DLC too), but let’s be honest: this game is already hundreds of hours long,” wrote an Evil Empire employee.
The End is Near located in beta since September 2023. The update will add a cursed biome system and content for them (three types of weapons, three types of enemies, three colorless mutations), 20 legendary affixes, over 40 hero head customization options, balance changes, new transitions between biomes and accessibility settings.
In February, the creators announced the end of their “creative path in the game.” With the release of the final patch, active support will end — in the future, only important technical patches should be expected. According to them, further release of major updates would lead them into a “trap of self-repetition” and would deprive Dead Cells of its “unique charm.”
The decision was harshly criticized not only by gamers, but also by Motion Twin co-founder and former Dead Cells designer Sébastien Benard. According to the developer, the authors committed “the most vile act imaginable.” He called Motion Twin “a bunch of greedy people” and Evil Empire the true creator of the roguelike action game.
The studios are already focused on their next projects. Motion Twin is working on the cooperative roguelike action game Windblown about protecting a flying settlement from the deadly Whirlwind, and Evil Empire is developing the platform roguelike action game The Rogue Prince of Persia. The latter launched in Steam Early Access in May, and the former is expected before the end of the year.
Dead Cells is out in early access Steam in May 2017. In November of the same year, the game appeared in GOGand in August 2018, a full release took place on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. A year later, it reached iOS, in June 2020 – Android, and in June 2023, it received a PS5 version.
In 2019, the game received a free add-on, Rise of the Giant. The next four DLCs — The Bad Seed (2020), Fatal Falls (2021), The Queen and the Sea (2022), and Return to Castlevania (2023) — were paid.
Over the course of its existence, Dead Cells has collected over 132.5 thousand reviews on Steam, giving it a rating of 97%.
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