![]() ![]() Thankfully, you’ve got the power to rise up and strike down the tyrannical foes in your path. It’s not an ideal situation, but hey, we all work with what we’re given. ![]() 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 corpses. You even unlock new traversal abilities, too, which allow you to take new routes through the decrepit world. 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. So, for those who have never played or heard of Dead Cells, it’s basically a roguelike action game. 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. 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, unless the iOS version of the game is the only way you can play Dead Cells or you want to have yet another way to play it, I’m not sure why you’d get this version over the ones that came out last year.Games that require fast reflexes and good controls can occasionally be lost when ported onto mobile. This mobile version is that exact game, but it’s a little harder to enjoy on this particular platform. This while this might be all well and good for an experience you’ll be luxuriating in front of from the comfort of your couch or chair, it can test your patience while playing in bursts on the go.Īgain, there are plenty of great pieces to read on the ins and outs of what makes Dead Cells a great game. In fact, there are doors, items, and map sections are inaccessible for large chunks of the game, with no clear way to gain access to them. Many of the unlocks in Dead Cells have a clear roadmap as to how to unlock them, though there are some special unlocks that are a bit obtuse. You fight your way as far as possible, try to unlock a few things before you die, and start all over again. Depending on your habits or expectations with mobile games, this could also affect your enjoyment of it.Ī core tenet of Dead Cells is repetition. The only remaining difference is that you’ll be playing on a mobile device. If you plan to play Dead Cells on a single iOS device with a controller, you should have more or less the same experience as someone playing the game on console or PC. The game isn’t actually shortening your jumps, but the visual trickery at play here can make it tough to adjust if you play Dead Cells between multiple devices. ![]() When playing on an iPad, the additional vertical screen space makes jumps feel shorter than they do playing on a wider screen. While this sounds great, it also ends up making the game feel a little different depending on your device’s aspect ratio. No matter whether you’re playing on an iPhone or an iPad, the game presents the action using the entire screen (aka no widescreen bars). Fortunately, this version of Dead Cells has perfect MFi controller support though, so if you have the requisite hardware, you’re in luck.Īnother wrinkle in the iOS port of Dead Cells comes in its presentation. There are a few different ways you can adjust the touch controls in Dead Cells, but none of them get anywhere close to capturing the tight feel of playing the game with a a controller. It’s hard to tell what buttons do what, and it’s nigh impossible to activate more than one ability at a time. This is partially due to the very nature of touch controls, but the game also makes matters worse with its button layout and iconography. Using touch, I found controlling most aspects of the game to be quite difficult. Dead Cells’s action roguelite gameplay is fast and satisfying, provided you have an adequate means to control your character. ![]()
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