Steam app 588650 · updated 11 Oct 2026, 14:21 UTC
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.
717 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
117 months, February 2017 to October 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
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31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
30 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 343 hourly samples from 16 Sep, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
16 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 374 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
This is an action-platformer in which players control a reanimated corpse trying to escape an island prison. From a side-scrolling perspective, players explore platform environments while engaging in frenetic melee-style combat against fantastical creatures (e.g., skeletons, giant leeches, goblins). Players use punches, kicks, and gadgets (e.g., flame-thrower traps, grenades, arrow turrets) to kill enemies. Enemies emit large splatters of blood when injured/killed and sometimes break apart into bloody pieces; blood also stains the floors and walls of some areas.
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121 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Jul 2022 to Jun 2026 · times in UTC
Hello everyone! It’s been a hot minute… okay, a looooong minute… since last time. We’ve been closely tracking your reports, so we're stepping in today to squash the most disruptive bugs weighing down your runs. While our team is currently…
BidjuHello everyone! If you tuned into the Xbox Games Showcase during Summer Games Fest, you've already seen the good news: Castlevania: Belmont's Curse now has a release date! The morning sun has vanquished the horrible wait: Rose Belmont will…
BidjuHello everyone!You all know how much Castlevania runs through the DNA of Dead Cells. It was our biggest inspiration, and the Return to Castlevania DLC was a dream come true for everyone involved.Today, we are incredibly happy to announce…
BidjuHey Everyone! La Motion Week, our yearly event, is back! This time we’ve packed it (ribbon not included) with new merch, a fun collaboration, and a big anniversary… CHECK IT OUT NEW DEAD CELLS PLUSHIES 🔥 That’s right, we’ve teamed up with…
NightHey there, Beheaded! The time has come - The Prisoner is now available as a free character in BlazBlue Entropy Effect! A huge shoutout to the 91Act team who have worked so tirelessly to bring this update in their game to life. There are…
NightHey there Dead Cells thumb-abusers! We are SUPER happy to announce that both the Clean Cut and The End is Near updates are now available for Dead Cells Mobile! Meaning you can FINALLY play every Dead Cells update on every platform! Whether…
NightWelcome Prisoners... After 6 months of undercover work, we are so glad to say the Dead Cells update for Astral Ascent is now live! Jump into the latest update with 5 brand new weapons, 15 new passives, and a dual weapon system! What to…
NightDead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board Game is now available in stores! In this novel take on the Dead Cells formula, up to four players can each play as one of the four Beheaded and leap into a co-operative rogue-lite experience. Players will…
NightIt's finally time... Dead Cells: Immortalis Episode 1 is now available with English dubbing!
NightHey everyone! We have A LOT of stuff going on over the coming days and weeks, so we wanted to bring all of that together in one nice package! So without further ado, welcome to La Motion Week! Windblown launches on October 24th with a demo…
NightHey everyone! It took us a longer time than usual to prepare, but better late than never: the 35th updated The End is Near is here! In this update, we are stuffing in new mobs, weapons, mutations and biome effects all expanding on the curse…
NightIf you somehow missed it the first time, you're in for a treat! It's been a whole year since you stormed Dracula's Castle on a new quest, met famous heroes, fought classic monsters with iconic weapons and confronted Death & Dracula in epic…
Night{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/27850661/f5ff06573beb13672ebff928790878a545df4959.gif Hello Dead Cells players, We're reaching out with some important updates on Update 34 "Clean Cut" on mobile, Update 35 "The End is Near" on PC/Consoles, and an…
NightDearest Dead Cells Veterans, We have long been wondering what we should do next... 'Why not make a sequel to Dead Cells?’ we asked ourselves. We tried a whole lot of... brilliant ideas: 'Dead Cells: The Cooking Showdown' with the Beheaded…
BeeHey everyone, We've just pushed a new patch for the beta test of Update 35, including some Balancing works, adjustments on Graphics & UI as well as Music & Sfx, and Bug Fixes of course! * This patch only affects the current beta test, if…
Patch notesHey everyone! The upcoming update The End is Near is now in Beta! In case you missed the alpha post, in this update we are stuffing in new mobs, weapons, mutations and biome effects all expanding on the curse mechanic, 40+ new head skins…
你的宝贝Hey everyone, We've just pushed the fifth patch for the alpha test of Update 35, including some Balancing works and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect…
Patch notesHey everyone, We've just pushed the fourth patch for the alpha test of Update 35 yesterday, including some Balancing works and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does…
Patch notesHey everyone! During the past few weeks we've seen a bunch of different opinions on the new curse additions, especially the cursed mobs… We fully understand the pushback on mobs that give curses, as curse and its instadeath effect has…
Patch notesHey everyone, We've just pushed the second patch for the alpha test of Update 35 yesterday, including some Balancing works and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does…
Patch notesHey everyone, We've just pushed a new patch for the alpha test of Update 35, including some Balancing works, Graphics & UI change and Bug Fixes. * This patch only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha…
Patch notesHey everyone! Looooong time no see, I am XYZ, the new marketing dudette of Dead Cells, who will be the main contact with you guys in the future. And for those who might be concerned about Matt, he is doing good, still keeping an eye on Dead…
你的宝贝Hey everyone, Just a quick post to let you all know that the Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania soundtrack is available to buy for $7.99 or equivalent as MP3 and lossless files on Steam! Revisit the DLC and download the full list of…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, So last time we posted here, we said that the next post would be back to video game related news. That might not have exactly been true... You've been asking for years and now it's here! Well almost... We are stoked to…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, Little reminder that if you're interested in backing the upcoming Dead Cells board game, you have less than 24 hours to get involved! If you back the Collector's Edition you get some exclusive content like the Bobby Character…
mezzamazza55Hi everyone, Quick announcement that the Kickstarter campaign for the Dead Cells co-operative roguelite board game is live! Check out stretch goals, daily reveals, how to play, artwork, exclusive figurines and more here…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone! We've just released a hotfix to address some bugs we missed in the Clean Cut update, so this will be a short post. It's also late on a hot Thursday afternoon, so my energy levels aren't high enough for a long one... There are…
Patch notesHello! The "Clean Cut" update is here! 'Tailored' (wink wink) to improve the whole Dead Cells experience with a bunch of trims and cuts for every part of the game, as well as adding some new toys to play with! TLDR 2 new weapons Change your…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, Hope you're all doing alright! First things first, we just published a fix to resolve incompatible version issues with save files for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Let us know if stuff's still breaking with our bug report form.…
mezzamazza55Hello everyone, We've just pushed a new alpha patch focused on fixing lots of small bugs and visual changes. This only affects the current alpha test, if you are not participating in the alpha, this does not affect you. If you want to take…
Patch notesHello! We're back for a new alpha test! The "Clean Cut" update is designed to improve the whole Dead Cells experience with a bunch of trims and cuts for every part of the game, and now we just need to make some tweaks before we officially…
mezzamazza55Hey, We've seen that some Mac users are still getting crashes. First things first, sorry that it's taking some time to completely fix this issue. We need some more information to figure out exactly where this is coming from, so if you're…
Patch notesHi everyone, Hope you've been enjoying the Return to Castlevania DLC! No rest for the wicked, the devs have been hard at work fixing some issues that came up with the DLC release and we've just released a hotfix to address a decent chuck of…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, It's finally here, the Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC is available now! Storm Dracula's Castle on a new quest, meet famous heroes, fight classic monsters with iconic weapons and confront Death & Dracula in epic boss…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, With the Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC arriving in just a couple of weeks, we wanted to share one last short teaser highlighting how the dev team packed the iconic Castlevania essence into every inch of the DLC, then…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, You've waited long enough to know the release date of the Return to Castlevania DLC, we said Q1 2023 and we're already in February, so here it is! But first let's explore an essay about what's going on in the game industry…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone! We're back with a reminder that our next DLC, Return to Castlevania, is coming early this year! To get you mentally prepared for some whipping and vampire-slaying, we've created a little teaser giving a nod to the classic…
mezzamazza55{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/27850661/4b2dcff6dc63c7e239280ea7985eaf7aa63705b4.png Hi everyone, After almost a year of keeping quiet, and we still can't believe that we get to say this, but our next DLC "Return to Castlevania" is coming in Q1 2023!…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, We're once again asking for some intrepid Dead Cells players to test some exciting, shiny-new and very chunky Dead Cells content and help us get some final polish on it. We will be asking for feedback and there will likely be…
mezzamazza55Hi everyone, We've just released a hotfix for a load of small bugs and quality of life issues, here are the main fixed bugs: Crash with Diverse Deck in custom mode Glow effect issues with weapons and mobs Generation issue with campfire lore…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, We're back with another indie crossover update - Everyone is Here Vol. II! We've added more weapons, skills and skins from our favourite indie games, so thanks to all the studios that let us add a piece of their creations to…
mezzamazza55Hello, The latest and hopefully last hotfix for the Boss Rush update is out. We thought we'd fixed the missing outfits and the soft lock when you die against Time Keeper in the Boss Rush... turns out that in fact we hadn't, so this hotfix…
Patch notesHello, A hotfix just came out to fix several annoying bugs from the Boss Rush update, as well as adding Custom Mode settings to the Boss Rush. Quality of Life Added Custom Mode settings to Boss Rush Bug fixes Fixed missing door after stage…
Patch notesHey everyone, The Boss Rush update is available to play right now! Face off against 3 or 5 bosses back-to-back to unlock new goodies. Oh, and look out for some new souped-up boss versions too... We've made a little trailer to show off the…
mezzamazza55Hi everyone, We've just released a hotfix for the Boss Rush update beta. Balancing Conjunctivius balancing: - All projectiles are deleted when screaming. - The Shock Attack warning more accurately represents the hitbox of the attack.…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, The Boss Rush update has moved into its beta phase. We haven't been able to sort out the issue with Linux and Mac so the beta is only accessible on Windows, sorry about that! For an overview of the update check out the alpha…
mezzamazza55Hello, We're back with another alpha for our next slab of content - the Boss Rush Update! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/27850661/1fed94a903580b241420585b3f8f682a855897d2.gif How does it work? There is a new area, accessible through the basement door…
mezzamazza55Hello, Due to circumstances that we will explain below, we're being forced to increase our prices in Argentina & Turkey. We don't make this choice lightly, but unfortunately a significant portion of sales in the last year came from these…
mezzamazza55Hey everyone, We're back with our thirtieth update, 'Enter the Panchaku'! To celebrate this milestone of 30 updates, we're releasing 30 NFTs that unlock exclusive content in the game. The release date for these is never, because we're not…
mezzamazza55Hey all, Just a short post on yet another patch for the beta - we're taking as much feedback as possible on board! Here's the changes: Balancing: Removed the pushback on Rampart's force field. The recovery after Wrecking Ball's 3rd hit and…
mezzamazza55Everything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 21 Jul 2023 |
| Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania | WindowsmacOSLinux | 06 Mar 2023 |
| Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea | WindowsmacOSLinux | 06 Jan 2022 |
| Dead Cells: Fatal Falls | WindowsmacOSLinux | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Dead Cells: Demake Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 14 Aug 2020 |
| Dead Cells: The Bad Seed | WindowsmacOSLinux | 11 Feb 2020 |
| Dead Cells: Rise of the Giant | WindowsmacOSLinux | 28 Mar 2019 |
| Dead Cells: Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 29 Jun 2017 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | deadcells.exe | windows | ||
| Dead Cells (OpenGL - Legacy) | deadcells_gl.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | deadcells.sh | linux | ||
| Launch | deadcells | macos |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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