Dead Cells
Motion Twin
Dead Cells is a roguevania: a procedural castle, permadeath runs, and a meta that slowly opens the map.
What kind of game is it?
Side-view action with Metroidvania routing and roguelite runs. You learn biomes, weapons, and mutations across deaths rather than keeping a single save file.
Who is it for?
For players who like learning a castle by dying and keeping the weapons.
- Loop
- Metroidvania exploration
- Sessions
- Medium sessions
- Progression
- Unlocks between runs
- Players
- Single-player
- Structure
- Roguelite
- Tone
- Dark · Brutal
Game DNA
What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.
- Progression62
Estimate
- Social18
Estimate
Key Steam facts
Steam store figures, checked 13 Sept 2026.
2017-05-10
Checked 17 Aug 2026.
Steam positive percent.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
How many people play Dead Cells?
Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.
Steam reviews × 25 to 55.
Copies × current price × 50–80% (sales, regional prices). Before Steam's cut, refunds and tax.
Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.
Peak that month: 4,161.
Half of 300 recent reviewers played 9.3–43.9 h. 2% under 2 h.
Players over time
Where the players are
Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.
- Simplified Chinese34%
- English26%
- Russian18%
- Portuguese (Brazil)5%
- Spanish (Spain)5%
- Polish2%
Dead Cells players also play
Games played for more than an hour in 43 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).
- tModLoader35% · ×2.3
- Terraria54% · ×1.7
- Hollow Knight: Silksong23% · ×3.1
- Celeste19% · ×3.5
- OneShot12% · ×7.2
- Don't Starve Together40% · ×1.7
- Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator12% · ×5.6
- Blasphemous16% · ×3.4
- Moonlighter9% · ×5.5
- Hollow Knight26% · ×1.9
Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026
What makes it different?
The 2D combat is readable at speed, and the meta unlocks rewrite later runs.
Core mechanics
How it scores
The fantasy: Mastery and Exploration. Our scores out of 100, separate from Steam reviews.
The 2D combat is readable at speed; meta unlocks rewrite later runs.
Similar games
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Related games
Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.
Genre / subgenre
Subgenres: Roguevania.
Steam genre: action roguelite / roguevania.
Related rankings
Dead Cells — launch intelligence
A Bordeaux worker cooperative, first console/PC title after fifteen years of web games. Fifteen months of transparent Early Access turned into an audience-building machine — the 1.0 wasn't a launch, it was a transition.
Store price checked 13 Sept 2026.
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