The Beheaded: Risk of Rain

Dead Cells' prisoner turns up on Petrichor V.

The Beheaded is a new Risk of Rain 2 survivor, drawn with his real Dead Cells sprites and animations: a 2D pixel hero standing in RoR2's 3D world. Everything about him is read from your own copy of Dead Cells while the game runs: how he moves, what his weapons are called, how hard and how fast they hit.

How he plays

• Rusty Sword (primary): the three-hit combo from Dead Cells, with its real damage and timing.
• Beginner's Bow (secondary): six arrows, drawn and loosed like in Dead Cells.
• Dodge Roll (utility): a quick tumble that cannot be hit at the start.
• Old Wooden Shield (special): tap right before a hit to parry it, taking no damage and stunning the attacker. Hold to block.
• Double jump, of course. No escape pod: he just appears.

Loot like it's Dead Cells

The first chest you open on every stage holds a Dead Cells weapon instead of an item, and other chests sometimes do too. Take it and the weapon you were holding drops to the ground, so you can always swap back.

15 weapons to find: Balanced Blade, Twin Daggers, Broadsword, Blood Sword, War Spear, Nutcracker, Torch, Ice Bow, Quick Bow, Multiple-nocks Bow, Bow and Endless Quiver, Spiked Shield, Thunder Shield, Ice Shield and Front Line Shield. Each keeps its trick: the Twin Daggers' critical third hit, the Blood Sword's bleeding, the Ice Bow's freeze, the Thunder Shield's shock on parry.

Risk of Rain 2's own items still stack on top of whatever he carries.

You need

Risk of Rain 2 and Dead Cells, both installed on this PC. Nothing from Dead Cells is in the download: the mod reads it from your copy. If Dead Cells is missing, Risk of Rain 2 simply runs without him.

Single player. Sounds are Risk of Rain 2's own for now.

Credits

Dead Cells is by Motion Twin and Evil Empire. Risk of Rain 2 is by Hopoo Games and Gearbox Publishing. This is an unofficial fan mod, built with AI assistance, running on BepInEx 5. Code is MIT licensed and open to remixes.