Astral Ascent vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
104.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
3.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
144.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Astral Ascent
7 years apart
Astral Ascent
2023 · Action
Hibernian Workshop · Hibernian Workshop
- Reviews
- 8,347
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 543K
- Net rev
- $7.7M
Stardew Valley
2016 · Indie
- Reviews
- 868,743
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 78.2M
- Net rev
- $669.5M
Tag overlap
15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Astral Ascent, 17 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Astral Ascent
Action RoguelikeRogue-liteHack and SlashAtmosphericReplay ValueDifficultStory RichAnimeHand-drawnRogue-likeMagicPerma DeathActionFantasyCo-opPlatformerLocal Co-Op
Shared
IndiePixel GraphicsSingleplayer
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen World2DDating SimCuteGreat SoundtrackFishing
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
vv1.0326K to 760K
units (median: 543K)
≈ $4.6M to $10.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.046.9M to 109.5M
units (median: 78.2M)
≈ $401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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