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Dead Cells is a 2018 roguelike Metroidvania with 2D pixel graphics, self-published by Motion Twin. It holds over 220,000 Steam reviews with 96% positive ratings, initially priced at $24.99.
Overview
Dead Cells is a 2018 Action game developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin. On Steam it has gathered 153,647 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Motion Twin with publisher Motion Twin is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 7.4 million to 17.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dead Cells can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
153,647
Positive
97%
Steam appid
588650
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.07.4M to 17.2M
units (median: 12.3M)
≈ $105.3M to $245.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dead Cells at roughly 7.4 million to 17.2 million copies, with a median around 12.3 million, derived from its 153,647 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $175.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.95Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.95 to $24.99, averaging $23.58 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.95 on 2026-04-26.
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Where to buy
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- Fanatical -53%$13.68 Buy
- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
AdventureAction RoguelikeMetroidvaniaPixel GraphicsRogue-like2DSouls-likeRogue-liteDifficultHack and SlashReplay ValuePlatformerSingleplayerRoguevaniaActionDark FantasyAtmosphericProcedural GenerationFunnyIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Cells sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Cells has sold between 7,375,056 and 17,208,464 units (median 12,291,760), derived from its 153,647 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Cells?
- Dead Cells was developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin.
- When was Dead Cells released?
- Dead Cells was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Dead Cells have on Steam?
- Dead Cells has 153,647 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Cells sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Cells has sold between 7,375,056 and 17,208,464 units (median 12,291,760), derived from its 153,647 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Cells?
- Dead Cells was developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin.
- When was Dead Cells released?
- Dead Cells was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Dead Cells have on Steam?
- Dead Cells has 153,647 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dead Cells within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Motion Twin's other releases and Motion Twin's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead Cells sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dead Cells page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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