Dead Cells is a 2D Platformer game made by the game developers Motion Twin, Playdigious, and Motion Twin Stop ARL that involves you transversing levels, defeating enemies, upgrading you skills and weapons, and killing bosses. The starting level is where the game begins. In the starter level( if you have never played before) you obtain your first lesson on how to play and your very first sword, bow, and shield. After gaining you weapons and learning how to do basic movement you are met with a prison quarters filled with monsters with different abilities. You go through the level defeating enemies and obtaining power scrolls to level your brutality, tactics, or survival levels up. Each weapon and skill you find falls under one of the 3 categories brutality, tactics, and survival. Killing enemies give you Cells, which allow you to unlock blueprints found around the map or also by killing enemies. The more levels you get the more damage your skills and weapons will do. After collecting all the power scrolls and weapons in the level you are in you will find the exit(s) to the next level(s). You can also find Ruins in these levels that will give you permanent abilities that allow you to find secrets and different exits to different levels. Each level is different from the last. When you die you lose everything except for blue prints but that’s only if you have used some of your cells to start unlocking them. After dying and losing everything you restart at the Starting level. It’s the same level and looks the same but the layout is different. After every death each levels layout shifts and changes. The color, graphics, and enemies stay the same after you die but the layout changes. For example. If your in the 3rd level and you die at the entrance to the level and there is a door to your left, when you get back to the 3rd level there may not be a door to your left, and the floor might be water or spikes. This rule does NOT apply to boss levels. After going through the first couple levels you will reach the first boss. Defeating the boss gives you cells, blueprints, weapons, and skills. the process goes on, you defeat a couple more bosses, go through some more levels, obtain more power scrolls and better weapons to make yourself stronger, and finally you reach the final boss. The final boss is the hardest boss to beat in your run(most of the time). Defeating the final boss grants you the same rewards as the previous bosses with 1 exception. The boss cell. The boss cell allows you to make your runs harder. It makes enemies Hit hard, adds harder enemies to easier levels, Makes healing items appear less frequently, ETC. Every time you beat the final boss with a boss cell active grants you another boss cell. For example, You start with 0 BC (Boss Cells) and defeat the final boss and gain 1. Activate that 1 BC and defeat the final boss again and gain another BC. Now you have 2 BC active. It goes on until you have 5 BC active. (Note you don’t have to activate all BC at one time and can choose how many you want activated for that run). After getting 5 BC and getting to the final boss, you can fight the final FINAL boss. Once defeating the final FINAL boss you have basically beat the game but there may be some weapons, skills, outfits, Etc. that you haven’t unlocked.