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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.
97% of 157,197 Steam reviews positive
Metacritic 89
At a glance
● Pros
- Acclaimed: 97% of 157,197 Steam players recommend it
- Metacritic critic score 89
- Full English voice acting
- Full controller support
- 50% off right now ($12.49)
- Runs on low-end PCs (min. 2GB RAM)
- Steam Deck Verified
● Cons
No notable downsides in the data.
Great for
- Fans of punchy combat and action
- Exploration and storytelling
- Discovering distinctive indie games
Summarized automatically from Steam reviews, Metacritic, language support, price and spec data.
What players talk about
How often each topic comes up in 51 Steam reviews (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) · 92% of them recommend the game
- Difficulty👍 15 👎 1
- Controls👍 11
- Graphics👍 8 👎 1
- Amount of content👍 8 👎 1
- Freedom & exploration👍 8
- Price👍 6 👎 1
- Combat & action👍 6
- Music & sound👍 5
- Grind & repetition👍 4
- Bugs👍 3
Counts how many reviews mention each topic, split by whether the review recommends the game.
“This is the game that pulled me away from Hearthstone and Zelda: Breath of the Wild.”
About the game
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.
Dead Cells puts you in control of a failed alchemic experiment trying to figure out what's happening on a sprawling, ever-changing and seemingly cursed Island. Immortal but crippled, your last resort is to take over bodies in order to move, explore… and fight.
While you may well be immortal, the corpses you possess are not. Each time your host is destroyed, you will be sent back to the dungeon to find yourself a new one and start again...
Experience a Roguevania, mixing an interconnected world, branching paths and unlockable skills with the constant adrenaline-pumping threat of permadeath. No checkpoints. You either vanquish the final boss in one go or you try again. However, you keep some of your progress for successive runs new paths you’ve unlocked, access to new levels, mutations, abilities and weapons.
Tough but fair combat, responsive controls, challenging foes, and of course, the emergency panic roll to get you out of trouble make for a visceral and cathartic action game.
Source: Steam store page (provided by the developer/publisher)
PC requirements
Minimum
OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Intel i5+ Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+
Recommended
OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Intel i5+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 460 / Radeon HD 7800 or better Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+
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Updated October 27, 2026 · Source: Steam