I have plenty of experience with Metroidvanias and I love roguelites, but I quickly bounced off of Dead Cells. It made me feel like I wasn’t progressing at all. Hades was the same way, but it weirdly avoided that problem with how it handles the story (Hades was also better at making runs feel different early on).
Maybe I should try Dead Cells again with assist mode. It looks like the game has piles of content.