In what could be described as a feel-good story, during last week’s GDC, Dead Cells designer Sébastien Bénard gave a postmortem on the game, during which he revealed that the metroidvania had crossed the one million copies sold mark, 60% of which came from PC gamers. Of the console versions, the Nintendo Switch port was the biggest seller.
This turned out to be great news for the award-winning indie title, as Bénard stated that the game was seen as a “last chance project” for developer Motion Twin, as up until that point, the company used to make primarily free-to-play games, including mobile ones. As a result, Motion Twin was on the verge of going under.
Dead Cells is available on Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game’s free DLC expansion, “Rise of the Giants”, is due out on March 28th.