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Dead Cells is #15 in Games › Role Playing Paid in United States and charting in 21 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Full timeline · 35 events
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10Top Paid · Role Playing · DE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🆕Dead Cells: its developer released another app: Absolum
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, NL, PL, RU, SE
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Action · ID · Top Paid · Role Playing · ID
- 🆕Dead Cells: its developer released another app: 9 Kings
- ✏️Dead Cells: needs a newer iOSiOS 12.0 → iOS 15
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10Top Paid · Action · SA
- 📦Dead Cells updated to version 3.5.15- Minimization of the game during splash screen doesn't crash anymore
- A crash occurring when picking up items has been fixed
- Controllers or input-devices with less than 8 buttons and 4 axes are not detected anymore
- You can now discover more Playdigious games through a "More Games" button on the main menu… more - 📦Dead Cells: first update in 307 days
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Role Playing · RU · Top Paid · Role Playing · SA
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10Top Paid · Action · KR
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10Top Paid · Role Playing · FR
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10Top Paid · Action · AE
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, NL, RU, SE, TH, VN
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, NL, RU, SE, TH, VN
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, NL, RU, SE, TH, VN
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Apple: “HORA DE JOGAR”today · BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, NL, RU, SE, TH, VN
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, NL, RU, SE, TH, VN
- 📈Dead Cells entered the top 10Top Paid · Role Playing · AU
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, NL, RU, SE, TH, VN
- 🆕Dead Cells first spotted by AppInsider#53 in Top Paid · Games · France
- 🌟Dead Cells featured by Applegames · DE, GB, ID, IT, JP, KR, RU
- 🆕Dead Cells: its developer released another app: Don't Starve Together
- 🆕Dead Cells: its developer released another app: Slime Rancher
- 📦Dead Cells version 3.5.9No release notes
- 🆕Dead Cells released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Games › Role Playing PaidDead Cells at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Dead Cells is a premium mobile port of the acclaimed roguevania action platformer, targeting mid-core gamers who seek high-difficulty combat and replayable progression. The title maintains strong paid rankings in Role Playing categories across diverse regions including the UAE, France, Italy, and the US, indicating sustained demand for premium indie experiences on mobile.
Similar apps: Hollow Knight, Celeste, Vampire Survivors
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Dead Cells on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Dead Cells’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 2 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Dead Cells downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Dead Cells's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Dead Cells before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Dead Cells makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | The Bad Seed | |
| 2 | Fatal Falls | |
| 3 | The Queen and the Sea | |
| 4 | Return to Castlevania |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
Brazil
India
Indonesia
Russia
Australia
United Arab Emirates
Canada
Saudi Arabia
Italy
Sweden
Colombia
ArgentinaApps near Dead Cells on the chart
Games › Role Playing Paid, around #15.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in 
Japan ▲ +100%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 48% | ▼ -10% |
| Japan | 4 | 11% | ▲ +100% |
 Vietnam | 2.5 | 7% | steady |
 South Korea | 1.8 | 5% | – |
 Thailand | 1.8 | 5% | – |
| France | 1.5 | 4% | – |
 United Kingdom | 1.5 | 4% | – |
 Mexico | 1.5 | 4% | – |
 Germany | 1.2 | 3% | – |
 Taiwan | 1.2 | 3% | – |
 Malaysia | 1.1 | 3% | – |
 Poland | 1.1 | 3% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Dead Cells
From the 56 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the game as a flawless mobile port with addictive combat and high replay value. However, significant complaints focus on technical issues like save data loss across devices and missing input support for keyboards.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and not being fun. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “overseas trip wayyyy more enjoyable”
- Ease of use: “I’m not sure how much easier this game is on pc or console but I gotta imagine this is hardest version”
- Features & content: “Would love for some control features to be added”
- Price & subscription: “I need them to make another game like this one, I will play MONEY to play it”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Love this game,sadly it always crashes on my iPad b4 I can play”
- Fun: “Fun until game loses all data and resets on TVOS”
About Dead Cells
Play as a failed alchemic experiment and explore the sprawling, ever-changing castle to find out what happened on this gloomy island…!
That is, assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers.
Dead Cells is a roguevania action platformer that will require you to master frantic 2D combat with a wide variety of weapons and skills against merciless minions and boss.
Kill. Die. Learn. Repeat.
First available on PC and consoles, the indie hit Dead Cells is now slaying foes on mobile!
Main Features
• Roguevania: The progressive exploration of an interconnected world, with the replayability of a rogue-lite and the adrenaline-pumping threat of permadeath
• Frantic and Dynamic 2D Action: Learn your enemies’ patterns to stay alive, or prepare to be sent back to your cell before you can say “baguette”
• Nonlinear Progression: Unlock new levels with every death, opt for the path that suits your current build, your playstyle or just your mood.
Surely, the ramparts can’t be as bad as the sewers, right?
• Play at your own pace: Will you explore every nook and cranny of the castle, or rush to the end?
*Latest updates are available: Clean Cut & The End is Near*
RETURN TO CASTLEVANIA DLC
Time for some vampire slaying
• New storyline - overcome the Ruler of Darkness alongside Alucard and Richter Belmont,
• 2 new biomes - Explore Dracula's Castle and its outskirts
• 9 new monsters - Werewolves, haunted armors, and medusas are waiting for you
• 14 new weapons - wield the Vampire Killer or the Holy Water to defeat creatures of the night,
• 3 new bosses - go fangs to fangs against Death and Dracula himself
• 20 new outfits - dress as your favorite Castlevania characters such as Simon and Richter Belmont or Alucard
• Alternative soundtracks - play along 51 Castlevania original tracks and 12 tunes reimagined in the style of Dead Cells
THE BAD SEED DLC
You reap what you sow
• New levels to lose your head in the not-so-peaceful Dilapidated Arboretum and the noxious Morass of the Banished
• New monsters to rip to pieces: get to know the locals, such as the Jerkshroom and the Yeeter
• New weapons to play with: trim sticking-out heads with the Scythe Claw, or make them dance to the sound of the Rhythm n' Bouzouki
• New boss to fight against: Mama Tick is dying to meet you
FATAL FALLS DLC
Ready for a leap of faith?
• 3 new biomes - Get some fresh air at the Fractured Shrines, splash around at the Undying Shores and take a picture at the Mausoleum
• 8 new monsters - The Cold Blooded Guardians and their friends would love to teach you about their culture. ... Wait, aren't those relatives of yours in the Undying Shores...?
• 7 new weapons - Lil' Serenade is perfect for breaking the ice with the locals, although the Snake Fangs would make for a perfect souvenir...
• 1 new boss - The Scarecrow is very proud of his gardening skills and won't hesitate to show off
QUEEN AND THE SEA DLC
Take it to the sea!
• 2 new biomes - Battle your way
Latest updates
Store changes
What Dead Cells changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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