‘Dead Cells’ review: a good mobile port of an excellent roguelike game

G ames that require fast reflexes and good controls can occasionally be lost when ported onto mobile. Touchscreens are definitely getting better, but it’s still not the same as holding a controller in your hand and playing as some games are intended. So, with that in mind, while you can play Dead Cells with a controller if you wish, I’m going to be reviewing it using mobile touch controls. So, for those who have never played or heard of Dead Cells cosplay , it’s basically a roguelike action game. It’s a roguelike where you don’t just get more powerful the more you play – well, you die and lose everything – but you unlock more powerful weapons and abilities for future runs. You even unlock new traversal abilities, too, which allow you to take new routes through the decrepit world. The world itself is falling apart. You’re an alchemic experiment that has gained sentience, and you can move through the world by inhabiting one of an unending volume of plague-ridden corpse...