Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game

Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game is a fantastic game with unfortunately a very passive creator and very scattered rules, rule explanations or house rules.

Download the Flayed fix.  

The "-1 health" on the green track of the player board of The Flayed...  was a typo, as the released FAQ by the creator stated on page 1,  

Many were taken aback that flipping open a circle with a "crown+green", would result in a TPK. In case the First player played The Flayed, and he had 1 health left,.  

Older games would be like: hey, so you learned to not  flip a circle token in such a situation. But anno 2024 people want smooth sailing, so cover up the -1 heart icon. print out the sheet then cut out and place over the -1 heart on the player mat. Use scotch tape, not glue, in case you change your mind later.

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Ideally I'll put a central,  printable reference guide here - but this requires communication with the creator and what they were thinking when they designed it. Since SM is very passive about it, this will take more time.

Will get new updates, and no promises when it will be definitive.

Nevertheless, printing a -1 on the player aid as well as on the player board, if it is a typo, is a weird typo. It may mean SM has no proper version control and an old version of both files was used (but how?) - more likely is they called it a typo after they realized that people were actually playing their game. Which is even more worrying. A more direct way to communicate would be really helpful.