A while back Motion Twin and Konami announced their new Castlevania crossover DLC for Motion Twin’s hit game Dead Cells. We previously covered the drop of the teaser trailer for the upcoming Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC here. The big news that just dropped is that Motion Twin is the official release date for Return to Castlevania, as well as a brand new gameplay trailer to accompany it.

Pre-orders for those interested in the game are now available on Switch and PC via the Epic Game Store. In addition, for interested newcomers, there will be varying bundles available across the available platforms that will contain the base game and DLC for a reduced price.

In the new DLC, The Beheaded will face down werewolves, blood-suckers, spooky scary skeletons and more; all of whom are in the way brand spankin’ shiny new loot. Thankfully, Richter and Alucard have given you some new toys and abilities that make quick work of these formidable foes. In Return to Castlevania, players can use Castlevania’s iconic weapons, including the Throwing Axe and Vampire Killer to dispatch monsters, all while teleporting behind enemies with a swing of Alucard’s sword.

As a bonus to all this Motion Twin also announced Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game is coming to Kickstarter this Spring! The game will be a cooperative, rogue-lite metroidvania-inspired experience, it will let players explore the ever-changing island of Dead Cells in person like never before. Players will have to choose their path carefully inside unforgiving biomes and work their way through Malaise-infected enemies... or die trying. Each death is a chance to mutate into something far more powerful, and to go further every run. Explore. Kill. Die. Mutate. Repeat.

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania will be available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch on March 6, 2023 for $9.99.