The extremely acclaimed indie roguelite side-scroller, Lifeless Cells, is about to wrap up store, from the appears to be like of it. Whereas it’s been recognized for a while now that Lifeless Cells‘ Replace 35 shall be pretty sizeable, Movement Twin has simply introduced it’ll even be the sport’s last content material replace.

Based on Movement Twin’s newest Lifeless Cells weblog submit on Steam, “Replace 35 for Lifeless Cells marks the top of [their] artistic journey on the sport.” Having been launched from Steam’s Early Entry program again in 2018, Lifeless Cells has obtained dozens of massive content material updates, one free enlargement pack, and 4 main paid DLCs over the previous 5(ish) years. In 2019, Movement Twin spun off a smaller help studio, Evil Twin, to help Lifeless Cells with this breadth of post-launch content material, however this workforce, too, is nearly prepared to maneuver on from the mission.

Lifeless Cells’ Replace 35 is the sport’s last official content material replace

“After an unimaginable 5-year collaboration in bringing further content material to Lifeless Cells’ live-ops, Evil Empire shall be pursuing new adventures and we are able to’t wait to see what they arrive up subsequent,” says Movement Twin’s announcement. “This comes after a lot reflection, particularly following the superior success of the “Return to Castlevania” DLC final 12 months.”

The studio is, as per its personal admission, afraid of falling into the ‘extra of the identical’ entice with Lifeless Cells, and there are fewer and fewer methods for them to maintain the sport recent with a lot content material having already been produced over the previous couple of years.

With 10 million copies bought since its inception, Lifeless Cells has been an important side of Movement Twin’s success, and it shouldn’t be stunning that the IP will maintain being leveraged for occasions to come back: “Keep tuned for extra updates concerning the Animated Collection, the Board Sport and… the Beheaded showing in one other world?!”

Protecting the entire above in thoughts, nevertheless, this transfer has actually been telegraphed effectively prematurely. The official title of Replace 35 is, in spite of everything, “The Finish is Nigh,” and Movement Twin did announce an all-new sport not too way back. Certainly, the brand new title is decidedly not a Lifeless Cells 2, however an all-new 3D motion platformer often known as Windblown.

“OK, so, think about [Dead Cells] downed like 312 power drinks, after which slammed its fist right into a 3D button. We then thought what if we made a sport that was… completely absurdly quick. Virtually foolish ranges of quick,” mentioned Movement Twin about its subsequent flagship mission. Promising stuff, actually.

To circle again, Lifeless Cells‘ Replace 35 doesn’t presently have an precise launch date: “We’re all palms on deck making an attempt to determine this out, so please look out for extra updates sooner or later,” mentioned Movement Twin on the subject. Replace 35 is presently in alpha testing, and it’s going so as to add a handful of recent weapons, assorted gadgets, and tweaks to the sport’s large roster of content material.