Game Title: Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania
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Developer: Motion Twin
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OpenCritic - 88 average - 100% recommended - 13 reviews
CGMagazine - Joe Findlay - 9 / 10
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is a fun and challenging action-platformer that will stimulate the part of the older gamers’ brains that loves nostalgia, while teaching a new generation that a 2D game can still be great, even in 2023.
Destructoid - Zoey Handley - 8 / 10
What makes Return to Castlevania better is that it essentially allows you to turn Dead Cells into a Castlevania roguelike, and a damned good one. The DLC serves …
I know this is one of those tips you hear in all the “increase your fps” videos on Youtube but I felt like it was important to remind it to the community since recently it has fixed my performance issues with some games that I had been scratching my head for weeks about how to solve them. Last game was Sons of the Forest, it was driving me crazy that my GPU was using 60 – 70% specially since I was using Ultra graphics, no DLSS and 1440p resolution which are all things that should increase GPU usage by a lot. I knew the GPU was fine since other games were running perfectly fine in terms of GPU usage and I found this article “Demystifying Fullscreen Optimizations - DirectX Developer Blog (microsoft.com)” where I read about how all the different overlays that nowadays we have running int the background (steam, Nvidia, afterburner, Game bar, Discord) interfere in how GPU renders frames when full screen optimization is enabled. I disabled full screen optimization and enabled run …