Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea
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This 2022 action indie game, Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea, offers roguelike combat. It has garnered 568 positive reviews on Steam. The developer attribution is currently unknown.
Overview
Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea is a 2022 Action game developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin. On Steam it has gathered 626 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Motion Twin with publisher Motion Twin is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 15,000 to 35,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
626
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1580050
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.015K to 35K
units (median: 25K)
≈ $43K to $100K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea at roughly 15,000 to 35,000 copies, with a median around 25,000, derived from its 626 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $71K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $3.01Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $3.01 to $4.99, averaging $4.71 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $3.01 on 2026-04-21.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$4.99 Buy
- Fanatical -5%$5.46 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea has sold between 15,024 and 35,056 units (median 25,040), derived from its 626 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea?
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea was developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin.
- When was Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea released?
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea have on Steam?
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea has 626 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea has sold between 15,024 and 35,056 units (median 25,040), derived from its 626 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea?
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea was developed by Motion Twin and published by Motion Twin.
- When was Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea released?
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea have on Steam?
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea has 626 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Motion Twin's other releases and Motion Twin's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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