CORE: About Them Video Games

CORE: About Them Video Games

Why Dead Cells Might Actually Be The True Goat of Action Roguelites

It’s an uphill battle for anyone else trying

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Oct 19, 2026

When Dead Cells launched into Early Access back in 2017, the roguelite genre was already in a golden era. We had the tight-knit synergy of The Binding of Isaac, the punishing tactical precision of Spelunky, and the brisk dungeon crawling of Enter the Gungeon. Yet, Motion Twin managed to carve out something entirely distinct, a masterpiece marrying Metro…

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