How many copies has Dead Cells sold?

indielist estimates Dead Cells has sold between 7,441,632 and 17,363,808 units (median 12,402,720), derived from its 155,034 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published Dead Cells?

Dead Cells was published by Motion Twin, developed by Motion Twin. See Motion Twin's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Dead Cells released?

Dead Cells was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Dead Cells have on Steam?

Dead Cells has 155,034 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Dead Cells worth playing?

Steam players rate Dead Cells 97% positive across 155,034 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Dead Cells

Aug 6, 2018 Action $24.99

Developer Motion Twin Publisher Motion Twin

Profile updated May 2026

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.

Dead Cells is a 2018 Action game developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin. On Steam it has gathered 155,034 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 7.4 million to 17.4 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

155,034

Positive

97%

Steam appid

588650

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

2,745

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 13:25 UTC · 24h peak 2,745

Sales estimate

v1.0

7.4M to 17.4M

units (median: 12.4M)

≈ $106.2M to $247.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

7.4M median 17.4M

+ How is this calculated?

155,034 reviews × NB(80) = 12,402,720 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_97%	+10
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dead Cells at roughly 7.4 million to 17.4 million copies, with a median around 12.4 million, derived from its 155,034 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $177.0M 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

55 observed days · window low $12.49

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $12.49 on 2026-05-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Dead Cells sold?: indielist estimates Dead Cells has sold between 7,441,632 and 17,363,808 units (median 12,402,720), derived from its 155,034 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published Dead Cells?: Dead Cells was published by Motion Twin, developed by Motion Twin. See Motion Twin's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Dead Cells released?: Dead Cells was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Dead Cells have on Steam?: Dead Cells has 155,034 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Dead Cells worth playing?: Steam players rate Dead Cells 97% positive across 155,034 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Dead Cells can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rogue Legacy 2, Skul: The Hero Slayer, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Wizard of Legend, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.