Games like Dead Cells

3.9average player rating•5 games

Dead Cells is a fighting game that resets: every run hands you different weapons and dares you to make them work. These keep the speed, the death, and the itch to go once more.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic83

Avg. player rating3.9/5

Avg. playtime4h

Main genreAction

Released2017–2022

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Action5 of 5
Indie4 of 5
Adventure3 of 5
Platformer2 of 5
RPG2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Hollow Knight
ActionIndiePlatformer
If what you loved was the movement and the map, this is the peak of it — one huge world instead of a hundred runs.
4.4/5Player ratingMC88View game
2
Blasphemous
ActionAdventureIndie
Not a roguelite, but the same brutal 2D precision, wrapped in the most striking art you'll see all year.
4.0/5Player ratingMC78View game
3
Rogue Legacy 2
ActionAdventureRPG
Die, pass the castle to your (weird) heir, come back stronger. The most generous progression curve in the genre.
4.0/5Player ratingMC88View game
4
Curse of the Dead Gods
ActionAdventureRPG
Heavier and darker: take the cursed shortcut and pay for it later. Combat with real weight behind each swing.
3.6/5Player ratingMC81View game
5
Skul: The Hero Slayer
ActionIndie
Swap skulls, swap movesets — the same run-to-run reinvention Dead Cells gets from its weapon drops.
3.6/5Player ratingMC80View game