Dead Cells vs Hollow Knight
Reviews on Steam
Hollow Knight
3.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Hollow Knight
1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Hollow Knight
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Hollow Knight
3.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Dead Cells
1 years apart
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
Hollow Knight
2017 · Metroidvania
Team Cherry · self-published
- Reviews
- 700,000
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- unity
- Sales (median)
- 63.0M
- Net rev
- $539.4M
Tag overlap
50% shared — 2 shared tags, 2 only on Dead Cells, 2 only on Hollow Knight.
Only Dead Cells
RoguelikePixel Graphics
Shared
Metroidvania2D
Only Hollow Knight
Souls-likeAtmospheric
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
vv1.010.6M – 24.6M
units (median: 17.6M)
≈ $150.7M – $351.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.037.8M – 88.2M
units (median: 63.0M)
≈ $323.7M – $755.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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