Dead Cells

How did this game sell over 500.000 copies in half a year? It doesn't look like anything special, and there didn't seem to be hype anywhere. But somehow it did?

YouTube shills that think it's hip and cool to play indie games nobody has heard of so they can convince their 16-year old subscribers to buy the game.

People seem to like roguelikes

Its a pretty good game

it looks cool

It's got nice graphics and good game play.

it cashed in on the dark souls aesthetic

>It doesn't look like anything special
Are you just shitposting about a game you haven't played?

It's actually fun. The game doesn't intentionally gimp you to make the run as slow as possible too, unlike that piece of shit Gungeon game.

It was free for a period of time.
This was also recently after it came out and it was garnering interest.

This. Attention whores too pampered to ask for opinions, so they talk shit because that's what the cool kids do.

Maybe because it's the only good early access game in history

It's really fun. Only gripe is that it's so short.

>I don't like this game but I never played it

Really makes ya think

satisfying to kill enemies and combo kills with the speed boost
player character's way of emoting with the world is charming
constant patches by a dedicated development team
lots of lore potential

>It was free for a period of time.
?

For a week or two (or maybe it was a weekend) you could get it for free from gog or some other website.
I wasn't interested and didn't grab it so I can't remember the details of what it was.
It's the same as how stuff like L4D/Payday2/QuakeLive was free for a period of time and after you got it it stayed unlocked in your steam library.

I'm not playing until it exits early access. Don't want to get burned out on a half-finished game.

All you have to do is look at the the sales figures and the constant patches since June to disprove that notion

It plays fast and nice, it looks nice, it sounds nice.
Updates are pretty substantial too. The only reason I picked it in ea is because the price is gonna rise, when it gets finished.

I liked it, except the elite units. Fighting them was always a matter of having enough damage or durability to survive the fight.