Dead Cells is coming to the last place it hasn’t yet already conquered: your mobile phone.
What can we say about Dead Cells that hasn’t already been said? The Roguelike Metroidvania indie game released on Steam Early Access way back in May of 2017 and immediately drew fans of its impressively polished 2D combat system and stunning pixel art. A little over a year later it was released officially on PC and all major consoles to critical acclaim.
Dead Cells won a bunch of awards, including Best Action Game from IGN in 2017, Best Indie Game of 2018 at the Golden Joystick Awards, Best Action Game at the 2018 Game Awards, and the 2018 Best Control Design in a 2D or Limited 3D Game Award from the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers.
So yeah, Dead Cells is legit. And now it’s coming to a phone near you.
French developer Playdigious is handling the port to handheld (besides the Switch, which the game was already released on) and will arrive on iOS later this summer. Android gamers will have to wait until later this year to spend $9.99 on buying Dead Cells for yet another system.
Playdigious reports on their website that the mobile version of Dead Cells will have custom controls that can be placed wherever you want on-screen. There will also be different touch options, such as swiping left or right to dodge.
Or you could just plug in a real controller and use that. Dead Cells mobile will have full external controller support.
There are also two game modes: original and “auto-hit”, which we assume will take out the whole “aiming” thing and is intended for casual gamers. No judgment here; getting any degree of precision out of a phone’s touch controls is hard enough already.
And because it’s mobile, Playdigious wants you to know that $9.99 buys the whole game without any ads or microtransactions. It’s the console experience on your phone. Just be sure to have at least a moderately beefy phone to play it on.