Balatro vs Phasmophobia
Reviews on Steam
Phasmophobia
4.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Balatro
3.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Balatro
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Phasmophobia
7.3× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
4 years apart
Balatro
2024 · Casual
- Reviews
- 155,457
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 7.0M
- Net rev
- $59.9M
Phasmophobia
2020 · Action
- Reviews
- 676,875
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 50.8M
- Net rev
- $579.7M
Tag overlap
10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on Balatro, 18 only on Phasmophobia.
Only Balatro
Card GameRoguelike DeckbuilderRogue-likeDeckbuildingStrategyPixel GraphicsReplay ValueRogue-liteTurn-BasedCard BattlerCasualDifficultChoices Matter2DTurn-Based StrategyRelaxingArcadeProcedural Generation
Shared
SingleplayerIndie
Only Phasmophobia
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opSupernaturalVRFirst-PersonInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveMysteryThriller3DEarly AccessActionTactical
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
vv1.04.2M to 9.8M
units (median: 7.0M)
≈ $35.9M to $83.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.030.5M to 71.1M
units (median: 50.8M)
≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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