Motion Twin's award-winning roguelite Metroidvania Dead Cells was the first game to receive an announcement at The Game Awards' pre-show this year.
In a brief trailer, it was revealed Dead Cells would be collaborating with Konami's long-running Castlevania series with the upcoming Return To Castlevania DLC. Fans can expect a new DLC update at some point in Q1 2023.
"Battle through the ancient corridors of Dracula’s Castle in this upcoming expansion to the acclaimed fast-paced action roguelite Dead Cells. Team up with Richter Belmont & Alucard and wield iconic Castlevania weapons against hordes of monsters to reach the throne room of the Dark Lord himself..."
This update will allow players to fight with 14 iconic weapons and items from the Castlevania series, experience two new biomes, listen to an alternative soundtrack of 51 Castlevania tunes and battle three "epic" bosses including Dracula and Death.
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Oh shoot, I assumed this was a sequel a la Cadence of Hyrule. This is still a really cool thing though!! I always think it's really cool when bigger companies let indie devs mess with their IP.
Wow awesome news, maybe if it does well we’ll get another entry in the…..oh heck nevermind. I’ll just be happy with this…for now!
Wow i need to buy this game
I NEED MORE INFO!!! Is this just going to be another new area and a boss fight? I'd be more than willing to pay more than the usual dlc price if we could get two. Plus, what does it mean by "classic weapons"? Is it just going to be the vampire killer and a few sub-weapons? Are we going to get soul stuff from Soma? Will we get Alucard's wolf transformation? Speaking of Alucard, how will the team-up work? Will we just get two new playable characters, or will we get something else entirely? Plus, HOW DOES THIS WORK WITH THE LORE??? God, I'm so excited for this, and I just want to see more.
How does Dead Cells keep making DLC?! It's pretty crazy. Castlevania is a good vibe for the game though; I'll definitely check it out when it arrives.
Every few months I do this thing where I keep thinking I'm done with Dead Cells. But it just keeps bringing me back in every single time.
Dead Cells is gonna crossover with everything eventually.
When I think of dead cells I can’t help but think of ign plagiarism
I'm so behind on this game. Need to finish.
Man they turned this little indie title into nearly a full fledge live service game with how often they pump out updates. Pretty cool. May have to redownload it all once it's on mobile.
Between the excellent Netflix series and now this dlc....
NEED MORE SIMON
As a long-time Castlevania fan, this is awesome news. I hope it's a really big expansion to the main game, not just some new skins, a few new weapons, and a single added section.
Brilliant! Dead Cells is an amazing game. It just keeps on giving. Thanks to the devs for such high end support over the years.
Cannot wait to see the first impressions of Nuclear Blaze.
Still cannot beat 5BC properly..... credit to the devs for such fine balancing (or likely I am just getting old!).
I love Castlevania, but cannot stand rogue lite type games and did not enjoy Dead cells..good news anyway
I want Motion Twin's to make a two new castlevania games, one a linear game that's like the game's nes/snes counterpart, and one that's a true metroidvania like sotn 😃
And I really enjoyed dead cells, so much that I have it on my ps4, switch, pc, and xbox lol.
This was my favorite reveal at the show. I literally jumped up from my couch. Cannot wait for this!
Ironically enough I would say Castlevania's world is much nicer and friendlier to Dead Cells' lore. In Castlevania there's always a glimmer of hope, in Dead Cells hope has fallen sick and either died or mutated and is now trying to eat your flaming face. I love how the main character is a goofball despite this.
I hated dead cells , way to ruin a good name like castlevania...
Are you telling me I can go through Dracula's Castle alongside Richter and Alucard....all while playing *DEAD CELLS!?
Have I died and gone to indie game heaven?
ummm..
i've never played Dead Cells and didn't really have any intention to.
But now there's Castlevania in it...???
...I may need to check this game out at some point.
Just got Dead Cells this November, the day of the most recent update. And there's new DLC ALREADY?
@Snatcher And what exactly do you expect us to do with that library card?
Now this is one of the more fitting collabs if I ever seen one. I will for sure replay the game now.
@gcunit Buy all the books named, “Dead cells lore” then buy all the books regarding how to read through said lore, then read all of said lore!
@Snatcher
@gcunit Why of course I do! How do you think I got all my copy’s with the totally legit totally not fake name!
Not exactly a new castlevania game, and certainly not SOTN.. but you got to take what you can get from Konami. On the other hand, I’m glad the collaboration was with these guys as dead cells is a great game. Look forward to checking it out.
@WhiteTrashGuy yeah same, hades, bayoneta and few of the others didn’t really do it for me, but this one I got excited for.
@alexybubble yeah I won’t to see gameplay !
@Kimba-lion
So many people said that DEAD CELLS was what CASTLEVANIA should have evolved into. Seeing a cross-over announced was perfection.
Yeah your right actually, that is the path castlevania should have gone.
Wow, going back to the very core roots of what inspired the gameplay of Dead Cells is a huge honour for any developer to have. Looking forward to this!
Eh, I'd rather play the classic Castlevania games instead. Dead Cells just never hit for me, but great news for fans of both!
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