Indie Developer Motion Twin announced today that an animated Dead Cells series is in the works and will air sometime next year.
Dead Cells: The Animated Series will comprise of 10 “roughly seven-minute long” episodes and will be released in France first before getting a wider release worldwide. The teaser trailer’s YouTube description mentions that the series is set on “a cursed island that a strange plague has racked”.
Alongside a teaser trailer, the developer confirmed that the series is being co-produced by animation studio Bobbypills and anime streaming service Animation Digital Network. Bobbypill previously worked with Motion Twin as the studio created animated trailers for Dead Cells.
Dead Cells originally launched in early access on PC in May 2017 and reached critical and commercial acclaim, selling five million copies as of March 2021. In our review of Dead Cells, which we scored a 9.5/10, we noted that “Dead Cells fuses breakneck motion with an emphasis on risk-and-reward for an incredibly engaging action-platformer”.
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