Dead Cells - Story Summary

Hidden in the sprawling dungeons of the island kingdom of Dead Cells is the intriguing story of how the Realm fell to the rundown monster filled state it is today, but due to how scattered that information is, it's difficult to put everything together to have a cohesive picture. Let's take the time to collect and organize all the information of the game in order to explain the story of Dead Cells in full.

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[ElGalloUltimo]

Excellent video. Best in class quality.

One nit in the improbable case no one has said it: "panacea" is pronounced "panna sea uh". It's an English word so any online dictionary will do it justice if my text hasn't.

[PrizMatex]

It still surprises me to this day that the beheaded is actually a king who also happens to be arrogant and
You expect that after reclaiming his body, he would try to fix his kingdom but no he wants to keep himself entertained by fighting his own physical copy.
He is honestly Deadpool crazy yet comedic in a dark way...

[atijohn]

I like how no one really cared about this game's lore for the past two years and we get a story summary just now

[Joawlisdoingfine]

So basically the mixture of Time Warping, Super drugs, A Magic Zombie Virus, and An Irresponsible King, resulted in this game

[aggressivecowplanthammafia]

I just noticed that the last words of the collector were: "Git gud" before having his skull flattened.

[BlueSky-vemd]

Wow, this game got a million points from me on story.... not often you play as the villain. 10/10

[DannyWhizzbang]

So you’re telling me that in order to fully understand this games story, you have to find every lore room in every biome, beat the game four whole times, then face a secret boss, and then beat the game another two times, which just resets the time loop again. Man this game is immaculate.

[thekoi]

I just started playing Dead Cells recently, this is the best timing.

[noplesnono]

I've always wondered what Dead Cells' Lore was. At the time i didn't have the cash to get it. Well i'm glad that you've decided to make lore videos on these small games, it takes massive dedication and i just want to say, Thanks for making these lore videos.

[ethribin]

It appears to me that, originally, the king meant to help and save his kingdom.
But eventually fell to dispair, and thus did the only thing he could.
Exercise authority and controll.

This obviously lead to his downfall, destroying himself even into a blobby mass. And thats when his journey begins.

However, its not a redemption journey.
He actually looses more and more of his humanity, begins to see the world literaly as a game for himself to play.
Enabled buy the collector and the time guardian's misshaps, he of corse becomes arrogant and uncaring.
Andcwhen he finally reclaims his body and the solution to the plague, thus ending the near endless loop hes been living for possabily millenia, he understandably gets bored.
And in the end, welcomes back the looping hell he used to go through, ignoring and forgetting about his people, the plague and the world.

Cause if youre eternal, all that eventually matters is how to entertain yourself throughout this eternalness.

[SpiceWeazel]

I can’t even imagine how many hours it must take to get to this point

[xornedge]

Idk if i can blame the king. He was only human and he fell into despair. The Giant himself said they looked up to him before. So in my eyes the situation was so dire that the King had little to no options left and was seen as the bad guy. Sure he made a few bad decisions but that only happened because of the pressure which caused his growing paranoia.

[mvtplayerzero]

The story just makes the game even cooler. Like the fuck:
- the beheaded is the king who ruined the place
- he regains his body and doesn't change his ways
- time travels and the game ends with breaking rule number one of time travel in media
I know I would never have been able to see this end by playing for a long time, so thank you for making this amazing video on an amazing game

[Kainable]

if i didn't want to be spoiled, I wouldn't have been dressed as the Queen's poodle

[garrettmasters]

What I find very interesting is that the plot of the lore was already there in game; hidden in the background. You just had to work hard to find out what was going on, kind of like Dark Souls or Bloodborne.
Great video btw!!!

[averypatrick]

I would've really liked to experience the story for myself, but God damn, I just don't have enough time on my hands.
Either way, we can all agree, the Beheaded's personality is amazing.

[瀬理緒]

17:05
I like how the collector says git good before he died

[bengallagher]

So mattpat was right...
you ARE the king of hallown- whatever the kingdom is called

[winniebeats]

I had to rewatch twice. His soothing voice made me fall asleep. Video was amazing.

[ruipedro]

Dead Cells has such an awesome visual design that even its more mundane elements lead us to an f fascinating setting. I once wrote a similar video to this, but sadly never finished it. Some of the ideas I had:

- there was an attempt to creat a man/plant hybrid in the kingdom, as seen in High Peak Castle, but don't know why. Maybe the King got greedy and wanted a new army? The dejects of those experiments coupled with the sap resulted in the water's contamination and the Malaise
- the Conjuctivius is a pure brethren of the Malaise
- the Time Keeper messing with Time is also taking its toll in space, hence the darkness mechanic in the Sepulcher

Some unanswered questions:
- why has the King's mind been put into an amorphous blob?
- who's the spider lady protecting the Sepulcher? If there's a Time Keeper, maybe a Space Keeper?
- what happened to the King? The Giant shows quite the resentment for how he turned from a beloved ruler to a royal jerk

I stopped playing Dead Cells after 2BC, because the difficulty was just too much for me, but it is quite an amazing game!