The DLC brings with it two new biomes that sound very different from the usual locations, as well as a whole load of new items and weapons.

Developer Motion Twin has a new update out right now on PC for Dead Cells. The Bestiary Update throws a few new spanners into the mix, in the form of new mobs for you to tackle with your selection of dungeon-sourced weapons.

There’s some good meat on the bones of Dead Cells, and if you choose to dig in, that’s a meal that’ll last you an easy 20 hours and leave you feeling satisfied by the time that the end credits roll. A fantastic game, that is done in one…or is it? Dead Cells still has plenty of life in it, as a recent documentary from Red Bull revealed more on the Rise of the Giant DLC that select PC players are helping fine-tune right now in beta form.

Dead Cells is one of my favourite games of the year. Its brutal action and repeatable runs have made it a game I’m happy to sink 10 minutes or 10 hours into. The release version has now been out for about a month, without anything resembling extra content since its release. That’ll be changing soon!

Dead Cells is perfect for the Nintendo Switch, a machine with a bit of portability. While there are no solid numbers for how many copies of the game have been sold on each platform, its developers have revealed that the Switch version of the game is outselling the PlayStation 4 version by a factor of four to one.

Dead Cells can be a challenging game, frustratingly so at times as death knocks on your door constantly, forcing you to reset all of your progress and momentum. Are you still planning to jump into this superb game? Well then here are a few tips and pointers to help you get the most out of Dead Cells.

A chimera of genres, Dead Cells succeeds in forging its own path with incredibly polished combat, retrotastic art design and drawing the right amount of influence from the past.

In Dead Cells, your first run through the game will result in you facing the guardian of the Black Bridge: The Concierge. Formerly known as The Incomplete One, the Concierge is an early-level bruiser with some frighteningly quick attacks and counters to your arsenal. He’s also not that hard to take down, if you know exactly what to keep an eye open for.