Dead Cells
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.
- Price:$24.99
- Release Date:8/6/2018
- Franchise:Motion Twin
- Developer:Motion Twin
- Publisher:Motion Twin
- Last Updated:9/18/2024
- Steam App Id:588650
Dead Cells
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Steam Deck (Verified)
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, Dead Cells has 3,180 concurrent players online and in-game. This is 60% lower than its previous all-time peak of 7,858 players achieved on 3/3/2024.
Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for Dead Cells. It has received a total of 157,542 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 96 (Overwhelmingly Positive).
Price History Chart
Track historical price changes and trends for Dead Cells. Right now, it costs $24.99 in the Steam Store.
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for Dead Cells and its growth over time. It currently has 373,650 followers on its community page.
About Dead Cells
Dead Cells is an Indie, Action, and Adventure game developed by Motion Twin. On 8/6/2018, it was released on the Steam Store by Motion Twin.
Players have rated Dead Cells as "Overwhelmingly Positive" out of 157,542 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 153,071 positive reviews and 4,471 negative reviews — an overall 97% positive review rating. Additionally, Dead Cells has earned a metascore of 89 on Metacritic.
It is available for gamers to download and play for $24.99. It can also be purchased through "Off With Your Head" Bundle, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Bundle, Dead Cells x Roboquest, Dead Cells: Medley of Pain Bundle + OST, Risk of Rain 2 x Dead Cells, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Bundle + OST, Dead Cells + OST, and Dead Cells: Medley of Pain Bundle which give a discount off its base price. The game also has a total of 5 DLC add-ons including: Dead Cells: The Bad Seed, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, and Dead Cells: Rise of the Giant available for purchase and download through Steam.
It can be played and ran on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. It is verified by Valve as playable on the Steam Deck and will run well.
It also supports 13 languanges in-game including English, French, Chinese (Simplified), Italian, and German. Each language comes with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
According to Steam’s category system, Dead Cells supports the following features:
- Family Sharing
- Full controller support
- Steam Cloud
- Remote Play on Phone
- Remote Play on Tablet
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
- Steam Workshop
- Single-player
- Remote Play on TV
From the Steam community, Dead Cells has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Action
- Adventure
- Singleplayer
- 2D
- Action Roguelike
- Roguelike
- Souls-like
- Difficult
- Procedural Generation
- Roguevania
- Hack and Slash
- Atmospheric
- Roguelite
- Platformer
- Pixel Graphics
- Metroidvania
- Replay Value
- Funny
- Dark Fantasy
- Indie
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for Dead Cells and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.
DLC & Related Apps
Dead Cells is referenced by 8 other related apps in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Type | Release Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Soundtrack | Music | 7/21/2023 | View |
 | Dead Cells: The Bad Seed | DLC | 2/11/2020 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania | DLC | 3/6/2023 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Rise of the Giant | DLC | 3/28/2019 | View |
 | Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea | DLC | 1/6/2022 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Soundtrack | Music | 6/29/2017 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Demake Soundtrack | Music | 8/14/2020 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Fatal Falls | DLC | 1/26/2021 | View |
Related Bundles
Dead Cells is included in 8 bundles in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Apps | Packages | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | "Off With Your Head" Bundle | 2 | 2 | $40.48 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Bundle | 2 | 2 | $31.48 | View |
 | Dead Cells x Roboquest | 2 | 2 | $39.36 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Medley of Pain Bundle + OST | 8 | 8 | $49.56 | View |
 | Risk of Rain 2 x Dead Cells | 2 | 2 | $44.98 | View |
| Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Bundle + OST | 3 | 3 | $36.95 | View |
| Dead Cells + OST | 2 | 2 | $26.98 | View |
 | Dead Cells: Medley of Pain Bundle | 5 | 5 | $39.95 | View |
Related Packages
Dead Cells is referenced by 1 package in the Steam Store.
| Name | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Dead Cells | $12.49 | View |
Supported Languages
Dead Cells is available in 13 different languages with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
| Name | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Turkish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
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Dead Cells data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2024, September 18). Dead Cells on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/588650
- Valve Corporation. (2024, September 18). Dead Cells. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/588650
- Metacritic. (2024, September 18). Dead Cells for PC Reviews. Metacritic. https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dead-cells
- Motion Twin. (2023, July 8). Dead Cells. Dead Cells. https://dead-cells.com/