Developer Motion Twin announced on December 1st the Rogue Vania action game “Dead Cells』Announced DLC” The Queen and the Sea “for. Scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2022, the price is $ 4.99. Probably in Japan, it will be 520 yen, which is the same as other DLC. It also revealed that the sales of this work exceeded 6 million.
Regarding the expansion of content in “Dead Cells”, DLC has been distributed in addition to major updates. The DLC “The Queen and the Sea” announced this time will be positioned as the final chapter in the new route added by the paid DLCs “The Bad Seed” and “Fatal Falls”.
As additional content, two new stages will be prepared, “Parasitic Shipwreck” and “Lighthouse”. These have emerged as new routes to replace “Tenjo Castle,” “Abandoned Distillery,” and “Throne Room.” In the “parasitic shipwreck”, there are strange creatures aiming at the player from the shadow, and in the “lighthouse”, a new boss who replaces the king’s hand is waiting. Dodge the constant attacks of the followers, climb the lighthouse while escaping the flames coming from below, and challenge the decisive battle at the summit.
The above-mentioned king’s hand is the last boss (other than the highest difficulty) in this work, and if you defeat the boss added this time, you can see a different ending. There is a comment from the official, “When you do everything you can to get through everything, the player should finally escape from this island abandoned by God,” and it is interesting to see what the end will be.
In addition to new stages and bosses, new enemy characters have been added to the DLC. In the screenshot, you can see the character throwing something like a big anchor. In addition, nine types of weapons such as thrown sharks, tridents, and pirate hooks, new pets, and character skins will be added. Pets are likely to become “hard to say cute” characters.
The developer, Motion Twin, said it will continue to provide free updates for at least a year after the DLC “The Queen and the Sea” is released. In other words, this is probably the last time we have added content in the form of DLC. Also, it seems that the completion of the development of this work is coming into view. Just two years ago, the studio said it would continue to support for at least the next two years, so it could be said that it was decided to extend it by one year (related article).
It was also announced that the sales of this work exceeded 6 million. This work was delivered in early access in May 2017, and officially released the following year, including the console version. In the 10 months since then, it has sold 2 million units, surpassing 3.5 million units as of October 2020 and 5 million units as of March this year. During this time, the mobile version was also distributed, and it is said that 1 million copies were sold in China within a few days from the start of distribution.
* The large-scale app “Everyone is Here!”, Which collaborated with “Hollow Knight”, was also distributed to the console version on November 30th.
“Dead Cells” is available for PC (Steam / Epic Games Store / GOG.com/Humble Store) / Nintendo Switch / PS4 / Xbox One.
