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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.

Developer
Motion Twin
Publisher
Motion Twin
Franchise
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Release date
Aug 6, 2018
Store page updated
May 18, 2026
Price
−50% $24.99 $12.49 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

90.0/ 100

Based on 420 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 95% of 774
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 183,517
“nostalgic childhood game, emotional connection, worth repurchasing”
小时候用手机下了个1.6版本的学习版，把当时的全成就全收集拿了😭，后来哔哩哔哩代理了正版买了全dlc，因为高考学业就没咋玩了。大二某天心血来潮就是非常想玩！直接下单steam又买了个pc版！因为我记得，我小时候说过：“初中毕业我妈还会不让我花个百来块玩游戏吗”，这是我第一个想在steam玩的游戏，可惜各种原因确实无法实现。大学以后我才有了自己的电脑，才创建了steam账号，这次激动消费，是弥补初中的我的遗憾。😭

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.30
Difficulty +1.42
“punishing but equally rewarding roguelike” (29)

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Story & World
+1.96
Story +1.30

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Content Volume
+3.20
Replayability +3.98
“roguelike with replayability that keeps pulling you back” (45)
Интересный рогалик который забрасываешь раз пять, возвращаешься с новыми силами и он тебя заебывает. Для прохождения советую изолироватся

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Visuals & Sound
+4.08
Visuals +4.06
“good graphics, very good gameplay, worth the price” (36)

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Multiplayer
+2.00

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Community +0.50

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Fairness
-1.04
Monetization -0.38
“DLC gated behind paywall, full game costs double base price” (12)

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Tech & Ops
+0.54
Developer support -0.50
“developer abandoned updates to promote new game instead” (17)
初中那会细胞刚登陆pe时候接触的细胞，在手机上买的，中途因为换手机的缘故买了好几份，一路断断续续玩到上大学拥有一台属于自己的电脑后才能在pc上玩这个对于我来说蛮有纪念意义的游戏。游戏本身的质量过硬，要不然我也不会买好几份。但这并不意味这游戏开发商是什么很好的开发团队。MT，杀害细胞的元凶。玩这么久游戏还是第一次见到为了推广一款完全不知道能否再创辉煌的新作而把早已功成名就的老游戏永久停更的操作。然而最关键的问题就是明明ee（细胞的实际开发人员）已经把诅咒dlc做好了，就差端上来了，MT说停更就停更，根本不在乎细胞的玩家们。这样的厂商我建议还是早点死掉为好。MT好像还干过不止这些畜生事，不过大多我都忘记了，感觉现在b站细胞社区也在慢慢走向衰落，之前关注的细胞up也转型了。对MT这种能把一手好牌打的稀烂的厂商也是无话可说了。 最后只想说一句话：mt，我槽你马

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
80%85%90%95%100%
May 2017Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 752 reviews, peak 38/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 420 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English28%
  • Russian22%
  • Chinese18%
  • Portuguese13%
  • Spanish9%
  • Turkish4%
  • Other7%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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