Well gents, Dead Cells does roguelite metroidvania and pixel art quite professionally and engaging but you don't like those... Dead Cells won't change your mind. :)

And it's OK.

Just bought it and tried it for a bit. I am loving it so far. I also like the music so I will buy the soundtrack as well. Thank you for releasing it here.

Note to the developers: Please keep the GOG version up to date when new patches get released.

Then you're simply wrong. This kind of pixel-art is not common at all.

It's ok to like different things, but that's not what this is about. I think cell-shading is a trash art-style that never achieves the cartoony look that it tries to emulate, but I can still tell when it´s done well or done poorly. Distinguishing between the various levels of skill that can be demonstrated is not a matter of opinion, but a basic skill necessary to judge the quality of a work. Not being able to tell apart varying levels of quality and skill is why these complaints are so pointless, because there's no argument behind them and they blindly focus on a game belonging to a certain genre somehow making it bad.

It is indeed, for the only thing keeping me from snagging this is that it's both ErlyA/InDev and features perma-death, otherwise it makes my eyes very happy as I love pixel art and metrovania!...

Plus, I am mostly glad to see steam titles making it over here and I have well over 800 games across several libraries so as far as the big picture's concerned; my world's not over!

I hate to bring this up but ... how many of the game's features require Galaxy? I'm pretty sure the achievements and global high-scores are tied to the client. No big loss, I think. But is there anything else?

I just found this piece on the games design process:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/23/the-long-hard-journey-behind-the-design-of-dead-cells-player-builds/

I'd also like to know, especially if there are gamemodes that lock themselves if you don't use NotSteam(TM), which defeats the purpose of having the game drm-free in the first place.

Edit: This is going to sound stupid but you can still see YOUR OWN score right? It doesn't break, or hide it, or not save it because it can't access the server? Like Nex Machina where I had to take pictures of the score screen because it wouldn't save anything locally.

Also, the soundtrack on bandcamp has 21 songs and that was released in May but the newly released soundtrack here only has 16 songs.

This is not cell shading. You're mixing things up. Cel shading is a way of illuminating a 3D scene.

And sorry but don't make your opinion as fact, because that is your opinion to think the art style is trash, I myself, think it's pretty neat and well rendered, especially the animations and the gameplay is top notch too.

You don't like it, for reasons, doesn't matter which, but it's OK.

Please don't abbreviate early access with EA. I'm not a fan of the concept either, but it doesn't deserve that big of an insult... ;)


Wouldn't it be great if features requiring Galaxy were properly labeled? *shameless nudge*

getrdy realises it's not cell shading; it was an example they were using to illustrate their point

It matters to recognise what a game does well and does poorly, regardless of whether you like it or not. There's no conversation to be had about repeating how everything is shit.

And the rest was wordplay; you haven't pointed out why it's supposed to be any of those things, but you'd have to play the game to find out. I can recommend it if you like fast-paced 2D combat and there's persistent upgrades to give a sense of progress, but you won't fun it if restart on death and procedural generation get in the way of your enjoyment.

That's the technical use of the term, but it's also used to refer to a particular visual style; the Zelda: The Windwaker and Jet Set Radio style. And yes, I know that me not liking cel shading doesn't make it an objective fact that the style itself is trash, that's the entire point of me bringing that up - it's an example to illustrate why these objections to roguelikes are shallow. Regardless of me not liking cel shading, I can tell that Jet Set Radio uses it very well and avoids a lot of the pitfalls that you usually see, such as clashing colour schemes due to too many strong colours. That doesn't mean I like that style, but I'm not going to claim that it's poorly implemented. People being unable to do this is what makes them throwing a fit whenever a roguelike gets released so boring, because it's always about a general dislike of the genre and doesn't tell you anything about that particular game.

I don't understand why you'd think I dislike Dead Cells though, as my first post was about how much I like it.

^This.

OK then. Still doesn't change my point. :P

And cel shading done right DOES give a cartoony look, see WInd Waker and so on.

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