76 MACWORLD MARCH 2018MACIt’s an especially good month for ports of indie games, as the end of summer brought us Dead
Cells, Rogue Legacy, Journey, and Telling Lies—and the latter even dropped at the same time as its
counterparts for desktops and consoles. With releases like this, the iPhone is starting to look more
like a regular game console, which I like to think hints at great things for the upcoming launch of
Apple Arcade. By Leif Johnson5 GREAT iOS GAMES
FROM THE PAST MONTH
DEAD CELLS
go.macworld.com/dceThe title Dead Cells ($7.99) refers to the hero of Motion Twin’s game, who’s basically a bundle
of sentient cells that slithers into the bodies of decapitated prisoners in their...cells. Wordplay is
fun, y’all! And so is Dead Cells, which, like Castlevania, is a 2D game that relies on exploring
and backtracking through various levels, with the key difference being that these levels
randomly generate each time you go through. Dead Cells is a hard game, not least because it
features a permadeath mechanic that makes you start from the beginning every time you die.iOSCENTRAL76 MACWORLD OCTOBER 2019