Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game

What is Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game

Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game is a dungeon-crawler that offers a cooperative rogue-lite experience inspired by the Metroidvania genre, playable with 1-4 players, and with a gameplay of around 45 minutes. Explore the ever-changing island of Dead Cells in this ruthless dungeon crawler. Explore. Kill. Die. Mutate. Repeat.

Choose one of the four Beheaded (Woah, hold on... Isn't it supposed to be only one of these guys? Is this one of those stupid time-loop plots?) As you resurrect with very little clue of what’s going on, you will...

• Explore Biomes. Choose your path wisely within a sprawling, ever-changing castle! Will you upgrade one of the character powers with a scroll? Or will you choose a chest to equip a new weapon? Will you find the hidden runes that will open new paths and access new biomes? This won’t be a walk in the park, though. Because the island is infested with the abominations born from the Malaise, be ready to…

• Kill Enemies. Each character class has unique power sets and a deck of action cards. For each enemy encounter, you will only need to pick one action card to cover all three phases of a fight. Loot equipment, gold, scrolls, and Cells from the corpses of your enemies and get stronger, but beware... Your health pool is limited and sooner or later you will...

Game details

Players

1–4

Age

+14

Duration

45 min

Difficulty

Medium

Type

Board game

Year

2024

Mechanics

Cooperative Game · Deck, Bag, and Pool Building · Solo / Solitaire Game

Categories

Adventure · Card Game · Exploration

Designer

Ludovic Maublanc · Antoine Bauza · Corentin Lebrat

Publisher

Devir · Scorpion Masqué · Frosted Games · Lavka Games