Dead Cells
Short description
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
- Developer
- Motion Twin
- Publisher
- Motion Twin
- Release
- Mon, Aug 06, 2018
- Price
- $24.99
- Reviews
- 157,015
- Positive
- 97%
- Followers
- 410,086
- Owners (estimated)
- 5M – 10M
- Concurrent players
- 2,559
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Indie
- Features
- Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play on TV
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $21.96, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $24.99 launch price. That is 12% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
29 data points since Oct 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Lowest recorded price: $9.99 on Jul 17, 2025.
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
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Skul: The Hero Slayer | SOUTHPAW GAMES first game | 4 | − Adventure − Metroidvania + Indie + Action | $19.99 | 50,902 | 93% | Wed, Jan 20, 2021 | $36.2m $18.4m – $36.2m |
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Gato Roboto | doinksoft 3 titles | 4 | − Action Roguelike − Rogue-like + Indie + Action | $7.99 | 4,343 | 94% | Thu, May 30, 2019 | $1.4m $704k – $1.4m |
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Vagante | Nuke Nine first game | 4 | − Metroidvania − 2D + Rogue-lite + RPG | $14.99 | 4,110 | 90% | Wed, Feb 21, 2018 | $2.9m $2.9m – $4.8m |
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Owlboy | D-Pad Studio 4 titles | 4 | − Action Roguelike − Rogue-like + Indie + Platformer | $19.99 | 3,670 | 86% | Tue, Nov 01, 2016 | $3.2m $1.4m – $19.1m |
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Roguelands | Sean Young 7 titles | 4 | − Adventure − Metroidvania + Multiplayer + RPG | $9.99 | 2,935 | 80% | Mon, Jun 13, 2016 | $1.9m $1.9m – $2.2m |
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