This Time For Sure, Dead Cells Gets New All-in-One Signature Edition - Hardcore Gamer

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When Dead Cells came out back in 2018 it earned an enthusiastic fan base that was quite happy to receive not only free major updates but also a nice collection of paid DLC.  Eventually it seemed that everything that was going to come out had been released, and Signature Edition games published a physical version featuring everything on disc or cartridge (PS4 and Switch, respectively) plus a whole pile of other goodies in the massive Prisoner’s Edition.  The standard Action Game of the Year version was handled by Signature Edition’s parent company Merge Games, and that was finally it.  Except then Motion Twin got the greenlight from Konami to create the Return to Castlevania DLC, giving the beheaded a tour of Dracula’s castle with as much Castlevania goodness as could be crammed into it.  Two biomes, three bosses, the ability to play as Richter Belmont, and much more made for an indispensable addition for both Dead Cells and Castlevania fans, but it also meant that all the previous physical Dead Cells editions were now outdated two and a half years after release.  It’s hard to complain too much seeing as the alternative was no Castlevania DLC at all, but even so it would be nice to have everything together in a full-featured collection.  That’s now being taken care of with the new Signature Edition (and standard Merge Games version) Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition.

The preorders for the new version went live earlier today for PS4, PS5, and Switch for the regular editions, while the Signature Edition is PS5 and Switch, no PS4.  It’s been a while since the last Signature Edition game, which was TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge back in August last year (and November for the PS5 version), so as a refresher-  Signature