ProtonDB | Game Details for Dead Cells

Perfect out of the box experience even non native (Win/Proton) with the GOG version

Tinker Steps:Launcher: GOG version via Heroic, Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-25

Heroic should only fix the issue with the DLC integration from the standalone GOG installers because they gave up a runtime error from the Prefix option. At the moment, only the main game is configurable and playable.

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-25

Distro:openSUSE Tumbleweed

Kernel:6.13.8-1-default

RAM:60 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 25.0.3

GPU:Intel Mesa Intel Arc A580 (DG2)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics

Citizen #839X(96 reports)

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-25

Distro:openSUSE Tumbleweed

Kernel:6.13.8-1-default

RAM:60 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 25.0.3

GPU:Intel Mesa Intel Arc A580 (DG2)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics

xbox live(15 reports)

xbox live (15 reports)

Indistinguishable from Windows

Native

xbox live(15 reports)

Native

xbox live(15 reports)

xbox live (15 reports)

3 months ago

Proton 9.0-4

xbox live(15 reports)

Proton 9.0-4

loaf(45 reports)

17 hours overall

loaf (45 reports)

17 hours overall

no problems

saves work between windows and linux

Native

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

loaf(45 reports)

17 hours overall

Native

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Ori(36 reports)

6 hours overall

Ori (36 reports)

6 hours overall

Perfect native experience

Native works flawlessly. No issues to report.

Native

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.13.2-arch1-1

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 570.86.16

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

CPU:12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400F

Ori(36 reports)

6 hours overall

Native

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.13.2-arch1-1

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 570.86.16

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

CPU:12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400F

Ringo(276 reports)

< 1 hour overall

Ringo (276 reports)

< 1 hour overall

Works

Native version makes my PC fans go absolutely bonkers for some reason, but works OOTB

Proton 9.0-4

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.12.4-zen1-1-zen

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 24.3.1-arch1.3

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (radeonsi, navi23, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.59, 6.12.4-zen1-1-zen)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

Ringo(276 reports)

< 1 hour overall

Proton 9.0-4

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.12.4-zen1-1-zen

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 24.3.1-arch1.3

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (radeonsi, navi23, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.59, 6.12.4-zen1-1-zen)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

DeCKard49(41 reports)

DeCKard49 (41 reports)

Awesome game, that works perfectly on linux!!!.

Proton 9.0-4

DeCKard49(41 reports)

Proton 9.0-4

KillerD(6 reports)

33 hours overall

KillerD (6 reports)

33 hours overall

Runs Flawlessly; in my case better than Windows 10

Significant Bugs:Yes

FPS Counter (both ingame and steam) not visible in native version,otherwise works flawlessly

Native

Distro:Linux Mint 22.1

Kernel:6.8.0-52-generic

RAM:8 GB

GPU Driver:4.2 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.3

GPU:Intel Mesa Intel HD 4000 (IVB GT2)

CPU:Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50GHz

KillerD(6 reports)

33 hours overall

Native

Distro:Linux Mint 22.1

Kernel:6.8.0-52-generic

RAM:8 GB

GPU Driver:4.2 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.3

GPU:Intel Mesa Intel HD 4000 (IVB GT2)

CPU:Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50GHz

Depression's trophy wife(4 reports)

22 hours overall

Depression's trophy wife (4 reports)

22 hours overall

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

Just small slowdowns every now and then

Runs almost perfectly, small slow down but other than that it's great.

Proton 9.0-4

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.12.10-arch1-1

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 565.77

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Depression's trophy wife(4 reports)

22 hours overall

Proton 9.0-4

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.12.10-arch1-1

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 565.77

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Combine(5 reports)

Combine (5 reports)

Runs flawleesly.

Native

Combine(5 reports)

Native

gavclued(2 reports)

6 hours overall

gavclued (2 reports)

6 hours overall

Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental, Set launch options

SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 %command%

in wayland game has problems, i'm getting this error via terminal ./deadcells: symbol lookup error: ./sdl.hdll: undefined symbol: glGetString, but forcing to x11 game works fine

Proton Experimental

Distro:EndeavourOS Linux

Kernel:6.12.7-arch1-1

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 565.77

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce MX450

CPU:11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz

gavclued(2 reports)

6 hours overall

Proton Experimental

Distro:EndeavourOS Linux

Kernel:6.12.7-arch1-1

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 565.77

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce MX450

CPU:11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz

bigfalkon(8 reports)

19 hours overall

bigfalkon (8 reports)

19 hours overall

Works perfect native

(with no dlc) gameplay is smoot without any tinkering. work great natively

Native

Distro:Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)

Kernel:6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64

RAM:8 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 565.77

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

CPU:Intel Core i5-7200U @ 2.50GHz

bigfalkon(8 reports)

19 hours overall

Native

Distro:Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)

Kernel:6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64

RAM:8 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 565.77

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

CPU:Intel Core i5-7200U @ 2.50GHz

madalone(32 reports)

madalone (32 reports)

6 months ago

Tinker Steps:Set launch options

unset LC_ALL && PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3COMPAT %command%

Proton 9.0-4

madalone(32 reports)

Proton 9.0-4

requiem(1 report)

requiem (1 report)

6 months ago

Works perfectly out of the box. No need to do any tinkering etc.

6 months ago

Native

requiem(1 report)

Native

Synth780(2 reports)

608 hours overall

Synth780 (2 reports)

608 hours overall

7 months ago

THE best roguelite around. No questions asked.

7 months ago

Graphics:Other

Extrreme flashing of screen. With V-Sync enabled it becomes stable.

BUY IT

Native

Distro:Manjaro Linux

Kernel:6.10.13-3-MANJARO

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 550.120

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

CPU:Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz

Synth780(2 reports)

608 hours overall

Native

Distro:Manjaro Linux

Kernel:6.10.13-3-MANJARO

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 550.120

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

CPU:Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz

Zach(5 reports)

5 hours overall

Zach (5 reports)

5 hours overall

8 months ago

Save Games:Other

Dead Cells does something weird with saves. Your save is located exclusively in the cloud, so when you play the game in Offline Mode, you'll be prompted at the main menu that your save is not local. HOWEVER this can be fixed by going to Options > Gameplay > then scroll down to where it says Steam Cloud synchronization. That fixes the whole thing.

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

Game freezes sometimes, though this could be with the shader cache or Linux build. Valve Testing uses the Linux version so that's what I've defaulted to, but maybe the issue doesn't persist on Proton?

Proton 9.0-3

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Zach(5 reports)

5 hours overall

Proton 9.0-3

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

donke(15 reports)

14 hours overall

donke (15 reports)

14 hours overall

8 months ago

Use Proton or ProtonGE

8 months ago

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-15

Native does not run, could be an issue with Kwin and Xwayland, I switched to ProtonGE9-15 and everything works fine

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-15

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.10.6-zen1-1-zen

RAM:14 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 24.1.6-arch1.1

GPU:AMD Radeon R9 200 (radeonsi, hawaii, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.57, 6.10.6-zen1-1-zen)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics

donke(15 reports)

14 hours overall

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-15

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.10.6-zen1-1-zen

RAM:14 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 24.1.6-arch1.1

GPU:AMD Radeon R9 200 (radeonsi, hawaii, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.57, 6.10.6-zen1-1-zen)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics

Bubibu(27 reports)

Bubibu (27 reports)

Worked perfect out of the box

Proton 9.0-2

Bubibu(27 reports)

Proton 9.0-2

dragon(26 reports)

10 hours overall

dragon (26 reports)

10 hours overall

Runs fine with Proton.

Native version breaks steam overlay. Achievements are still earned and displayed in-game as if the overlay was active, but the overlay cannot be opened. Running the windows version fixes this.

Proton 9.0-2

Distro:Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Kernel:6.5.0-41-generic

RAM:63 GB

GPU Driver:4.6.0 Compatibility Profile Context .230706

GPU:ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

dragon(26 reports)

10 hours overall

Proton 9.0-2

Distro:Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Kernel:6.5.0-41-generic

RAM:63 GB

GPU Driver:4.6.0 Compatibility Profile Context .230706

GPU:ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

SushiRoll(9 reports)

SushiRoll (9 reports)

Runs smoothly out of the box

Native

SushiRoll(9 reports)

Native

RobotMan #08(13 reports)

25 hours overall

RobotMan #08 (13 reports)

25 hours overall

Last Update runs GREAT!!!

Battery Performance:Made Changes To Improve

4 TDP - 400 clock- 60HZ

Zero issues with the game after the last game update.

Proton 9.0-2

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

RobotMan #08(13 reports)

25 hours overall

Proton 9.0-2

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

aparik(2 reports)

13 hours overall

aparik (2 reports)

13 hours overall

Runs smoothly at 90fps without any issues

Proton 9.0-2

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

aparik(2 reports)

13 hours overall

Proton 9.0-2

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Washclof(1 report)

Washclof (1 report)

11 months ago

Proton 9.0-2

Washclof(1 report)

Proton 9.0-2

Reend(5 reports)

Reend (5 reports)

Tinker Steps:Other

Runs very smooth on proton experimental.

Proton 9.0-2

Reend(5 reports)

Proton 9.0-2

Reend(5 reports)

54 hours overall

Reend (5 reports)

54 hours overall

Tinker Steps:Other

Its run perfect without any additional settings or tweaks.

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

I mean, i cant say anything for sure but its looks like very little not smooth. I dont remember this is happening on Windows too. Maybe because of my ass pc.

Proton 9.0-1

Distro:Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Kernel:6.1.0-21-amd64

RAM:4 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.3.6

GPU:Intel Mesa Intel HD 4400 (HSW GT2)

CPU:Intel Core i3-4010U @ 1.70GHz

Reend(5 reports)

54 hours overall

Proton 9.0-1

Distro:Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Kernel:6.1.0-21-amd64

RAM:4 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.3.6

GPU:Intel Mesa Intel HD 4400 (HSW GT2)

CPU:Intel Core i3-4010U @ 1.70GHz

Elarionus(4 reports)

19 hours overall

Elarionus (4 reports)

19 hours overall

Until the stability is fixed, it's not fun. Too many run ending bugs. Going to pick it up on PS5 instead.

Instability:Frequently

Significant Bugs:

Sometimes the camera pans to a random area of the map, which ends runs.

Proton 9.0-1

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Elarionus(4 reports)

19 hours overall

Proton 9.0-1

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

TokyoBoy_(3 reports)

TokyoBoy_ (3 reports)

100% Playable

Proton 9.0-1

TokyoBoy_(3 reports)

Proton 9.0-1

BATCAVE765(1 report)

BATCAVE765 (1 report)

I got 200 fps in windows and 300 here!

Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental

Proton Experimental

BATCAVE765(1 report)

Proton Experimental

✨Sparkle✨(18 reports)

10 hours overall

✨Sparkle✨ (18 reports)

10 hours overall

no problems at all

Proton 8.0-5

Distro:EndeavourOS Linux

Kernel:6.7.4-arch1-1

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 545.29.06

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

CPU:Intel Core i7-9700KF @ 3.60GHz

✨Sparkle✨(18 reports)

10 hours overall

Proton 8.0-5

Distro:EndeavourOS Linux

Kernel:6.7.4-arch1-1

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 545.29.06

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

CPU:Intel Core i7-9700KF @ 3.60GHz

Mostujskoji(3 reports)

Mostujskoji (3 reports)

Proton 8.0-5

Mostujskoji(3 reports)

Proton 8.0-5

felix.fourcolor(10 reports)

147 hours overall

felix.fourcolor (10 reports)

147 hours overall

Natively perfect

Plays perfectly out of the box.

Proton 8.0-5

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.6.5-zen1-1-zen

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 535.113.01

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

CPU:12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700

felix.fourcolor(10 reports)

147 hours overall

Proton 8.0-5

Distro:Arch Linux

Kernel:6.6.5-zen1-1-zen

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 535.113.01

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

CPU:12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700

帝 | Duke(7 reports)

帝 | Duke (7 reports)

Battery Performance:Made Changes To Improve

4 TDP - 400 clock - 60HZ

Proton 8.0-4

帝 | Duke(7 reports)

Proton 8.0-4

Spree(5 reports)

23 hours overall

Spree (5 reports)

23 hours overall

Works perfectly, one of the best games to play on a steam deck

Battery Performance:Made Changes To Improve

4 watt tdp

Proton 8.0-4

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Spree(5 reports)

23 hours overall

Proton 8.0-4

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Kazuma Freakyu(64 reports)

Kazuma Freakyu (64 reports)

Works absolutely fine, performance is equall to windows

Native

Kazuma Freakyu(64 reports)

Native

Sr. Estegosaurio(17 reports)

Sr. Estegosaurio (17 reports)

Works perfectly OOTB

Tinker Steps:Set launch options

gamemoderun %command%

Proton 8.0-4

Sr. Estegosaurio(17 reports)

Proton 8.0-4

MiskLG(9 reports)

62 hours overall

MiskLG (9 reports)

62 hours overall

Works great out of the box, no need to tinker