Dead Cells
Last updated: 2026-01-03
- High replayability and addictive gameplay loop
- Challenging yet fair difficulty balance
- Fluid and satisfying combat mechanics
- Procedural generation with meaningful variety
- DLC aggressively gates significant content
- Permadeath resets progress too harshly
Emotions
Frustration20%Excitement17%Satisfaction14%Enjoyment5%Nostalgia4%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 176,007
- Positive
- 170,83097.1%
- Negative
- 5,1772.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 12,361,848
- Estimated revenue
- $308,922,582
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 620.38%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,355
- Estimated revenue lost
- $108,831
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 630.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1811.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 5793.6% Avg playtime 47.9h | 15,38194.9% Avg playtime 59.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 5.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 46.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 278.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,160.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
16,204 total
Organic purchasers13,60984.0%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations2,59516.0%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
16,204 total
First impression0-2h5423.34%
Voted up: 86%
Mid game2-10h4,90630.3%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h3,28120.2%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+7,47546.1%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.7%
Global baseline 96.0%
397 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 176,007 total.