Dead Cells is getting paid Castlevania DLC next year

Dead Cells, the superb rogue-like action-platformer from developers Motion Twin and subsidiary Evil Empire, is getting a great big dollop of Castlevania-themed paid DLC next year.

Titled Return to Castelvania, Evil Empire calls the expansion "our very own love letter to the granddad of Dead Cells", promising an adventure through two new biomes themed around the spooky outskirts and candle-lit interior of Dracula's Castle.

There's a new storyline putting Richter Belmont and Alucard right alongside players, a 60-tune soundtrack featuring original and reimagined Castlevania music, plus new weapons that should be immediately familiar to fans, including the Vampire Killer, Throwing Axe, an Holy Water.

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