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Dead Cells

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App ID 588650
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Motion Twin
Franchise Motion Twin
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies HashLink Engine, Heaps Engine
Last Changenumber 31912086
Last Record Update 26 October 2025 – 19:19:13 UTC ()
Release Date 6 August 2018 – 21:56:00 UTC ()
🤩 95.82%
173k reviews
3,579
In-Game
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🗺️ Adventure 💨 Metroidvania 👻 Action Roguelike 👾 Pixel Graphics 👻 Roguelike

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.

Additional Information

Developer Motion Twin
metacritic_name Dead Cells
controller_support full
metacritic_score 89
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dead-cells?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
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workshop_visible Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Motion Twin
Store Release Date 6 August 2018 – 21:56:44 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.gg/DArxZmsSQ3
https://www.facebook.com/dead.cells.game/
https://www.twitch.tv/motion_twin
https://x.com/motiontwin
https://www.youtube.com/motiontwinfr/
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 6 August 2018 – 21:56:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 9 July 2025 – 01:50:37 UTC () (1752025837)
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Detected Technologies (?) HashLink Engine, Heaps Engine, Ogg SDK, OpenAL SDK, SDL SDK, Vorbis SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  •  
  • category: Verified
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 25 February 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 8173571
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steam_deck_blog_url https://steamcommunity.com/games/588650/announcements/detail/3191371430384129459
Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 31 January 2017 – 09:56:05 UTC (), in changelist #2656974
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

15 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Portugal Yes Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes Yes
Turkish Yes Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Latin America Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes

Tags

🗺️ Adventure 💨 Metroidvania 👻 Action Roguelike 👾 Pixel Graphics 👻 Roguelike 🏽 2D 💥 Souls-like 👻 Roguelite 😓 Difficult 🛡️ Hack and Slash 🔄 Replay Value 🏗️ Platformer 👤 Singleplayer 👻 Roguevania 💥 Action 🧝 Dark Fantasy 🌫 Atmospheric 🔀 Procedural Generation 😃 Funny 🌱 Indie

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Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

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timestamp22 October 2025 – 08:51:06 UTC

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timestamp 11 February 2020 – 13:15:51 UTC

Steam charts

  • 3,579 players right now
  • 3,691 24-hour peak
  • 14,910 all-time peak 11 March 2023
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  • 15 viewers right now
  • 52 24-hour peak
  • 157,015 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive
  • 95.82% SteamDB Rating
  • 168,806 97.1% positive reviews
  • 5,111 2.9% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
6 August 2018 Steam Release -
2 July 2019 ⇄ Indiegala: The Pocket-Size Bundle #6 -
26 January 2021 ⇄ WinGameStore: Dead Cells - The Fatal Seed Bundle -

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How many players are playing Dead Cells right now on Steam?

Steam player counter indicates there are currently 3579 players live playing Dead Cells on Steam.

Dead Cells had an all-time peak of 14910 concurrent players on 11 March 2023.

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