“We always wondered whether it would be possible to dig up the old versions of the game and store them somewhere, so that interested players and future generations of developers could look back at how our little game developed and grew into the Action Game of the Year 2018,” writes Motion Twin. The decision to add access to older versions, the dev team explains on Steam, was driven by their awareness of how much each patch could alter Dead Cells as a game, and a desire to preserve older versions for players and devs curious about the game's earlier days. While updates bring improvements and new content, the version of any live game that exists years after launch is often quite different from the one offered on day one. It’s an interesting feature to build into an ever evolving game, and one that likely took no small amount of effort on Motion Twin’s part.
