Games like Dead Cells on iPhone

Dead Cells is on the App Store at $8.99 from Playdigious, and there is also a Dead Cells: Netflix Edition that comes with a Netflix subscription rather than a purchase. Both are the real game.

Start here, honestly

If what you love about Dead Cells is the movement, the parry timing and the map, then nothing on this page substitutes for it, REELS included. REELS is not a platformer and has no precision inputs at all. Buy Dead Cells.

What REELS takes from the same family

• Runs that end, and unlocks that do not. What you earn stays, so a lost run still moved something.
• Weapons and charms found mid run that decide what the run is about, rather than a fixed loadout.
• A route you choose, with doors that state what they cost and what they pay.

What it gives you instead of platforming

A slot machine that is the combat system. The reels spin while you are being hunted and decide what your weapons fire at, and the toll for the next floor climbs faster than you do. The skill is in reading the machine and building for it, not in the timing of a dodge.

It also plays one handed and offline, which Dead Cells, being a precision platformer, cannot really claim on a phone.