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221 games like Dead Cells

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01 Astral Ascent Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Astral Ascent

83%

Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning...

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Dead Cells

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Risk of Rain Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Risk of Rain

70%

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or wit...

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Dead Cells

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Away: Journey to the Unexpected Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Away: Journey to the Unexpected

65%

Away: Journey to the Unexpected is a colorful first person adventure game that combines action, negotiation and rogue-lite elements Progress through the levels and the story, choose your path, but above all, recruit allies. All the strange characters you meet...

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Dead Cells

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 The Siege and the Sandfox Cover
65%

A 2D stealth Metroidvania with parkour platforming. Explore the majestic palace and ancient prisons of a kingdom under siege. Don the mantle of the legendary Sandfox as you venture into the ruins below, and discover the true threat from a sand-borne evil.

Your match for

Dead Cells

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Rogue Legacy Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rogue Legacy

64%

You control a family of characters one at a time, and when your character dies, you choose who his or her successor is, whether it is a barbarian son of yours who has OCD, your daughter who became a ninja even though she can't see well, an assassin who is figh...

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Dead Cells

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Asura Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, PC

Asura

59%

"Asura is an indie top-down hack 'n' slash game based on a fantasy setting inspired by Indian mythology. It features heavy rogue-like elements and a procedural skill tree which changes on every play through. Take on the roll as the demon incarnate and oblitera...

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Dead Cells

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

55%

A 2D metroidvania with an emphasis on close combat and exploration in which the player enters the once-prosperous now-bleak insect kingdom of Hallownest, travels through its various districts, meets friendly inhabitants, fights hostile ones and uncovers the ki...

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Dead Cells

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

55%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

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Dead Cells

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

55%

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the epic action-adventure of bugs and heroes. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to you...

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Dead Cells

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

54%

Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. It's a hot mashup of new and old! You play as the eponymous Shovel Knight, a small knight with a huge quest. Shovel Knight has...

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Dead Cells

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Iconoclasts Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Iconoclasts

52%

Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a huge, open world filled with intricate puzzles, oddball characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure telling a personal story about faith, purpose and whether...

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Dead Cells

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Hades Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

Hades

51%

A rogue-lite hack and slash dungeon crawler in which Zagreus, son of Hades the Greek god of the dead, attempts to escape his home and his oppressive father by fighting the souls of the dead through the various layers of the ever-shifting underworld, while gett...

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Dead Cells

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 AeternoBlade Cover

2014 · 3DS, Switch, PC

AeternoBlade

51%

In the region of Awelsia, vengeful Freyja travels with an unknown weapon called 'AeternoBlade'. Freyja looks to take revenge on Beladim, the Lord of the Mist who destroyed her village, Ridgerode, and killed her tribe. Her vengeance is helped by Vernia, who has...

Your match for

Dead Cells

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

49%

Night In The Woods is an adventure game heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town. Mae's a cat so the roofs and ledges and powerlines are all her playground, and she's not the only one up there by a long sho...

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Dead Cells

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

49%

Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics – each character's different abilities and tactics can be...

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Dead Cells

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Ghost 1.0 Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Ghost 1.0

49%

A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have...

Your match for

Dead Cells

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Super Meat Boy Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Super Meat Boy

48%

Super Meat Boy is a platform game in which players control Meat Boy, a small, dark red, cube-shaped character who must rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the scientist Dr. Fetus. The game is divided into chapters containing over 300 levels, each requiring...

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Dead Cells

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

48%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

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Dead Cells

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Darkest Dungeon Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Darkest Dungeon

48%

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your h...

Your match for

Dead Cells

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Mark of the Ninja Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Mark of the Ninja

48%

Mark of the Ninja is a side-scrolling action stealth video game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios. It was announced on February 28, 2012 and later released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on September 7, 2012. A Microsoft...

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Dead Cells

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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