Animal Well vs Dead Cells
Reviews on Steam
Dead Cells
7.3× more reviews
Estimated sales (median)
Dead Cells
10.7× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Animal Well
6 years apart
Animal Well
2024 · Metroidvania Puzzle
- Reviews
- 30,000
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- custom
- Sales (median)
- 1.6M
- Net rev
- $23.6M
Dead Cells
2018 · Roguelike Metroidvania
Motion Twin · self-published
- Reviews
- 220,000
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- haxe
- Sales (median)
- 17.6M
- Net rev
- $251.2M
Tag overlap
50% shared — 2 shared tags, 2 only on Animal Well, 2 only on Dead Cells.
Only Animal Well
MysteryAtmospheric
Shared
MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
Only Dead Cells
Roguelike2D
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.0990K – 2.3M
units (median: 1.6M)
≈ $14.1M – $33.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.010.6M – 24.6M
units (median: 17.6M)
≈ $150.7M – $351.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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