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The developers behind Dead Cells certainly felt that pressure while makingtheir next roguelike launching this month.

“It’s awful and very, very cool at the same time,” Vasseur says.

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“Because when you want to do better, it’s like you’re running after another thing.

We just wanted to make a game to play together.”

“We really want to have this kind of feeling to rush.

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It’s hard to be in the shadow of Dead Cells.”

We’ll see what those years of work culminated in when Windblown hits early access on October 24.

Check out the verybest roguelike gamesto play while we wait.

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