Balatro vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
5.6× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
0.6pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
11.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
8 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
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
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Balatro, 14 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Balatro
Card GameRoguelike DeckbuilderRogue-likeDeckbuildingStrategyReplay ValueRogue-liteTurn-BasedCard BattlerDifficultChoices MatterTurn-Based StrategyArcadeProcedural Generation
Shared
SingleplayerPixel GraphicsCasual2DIndieRelaxing
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimMultiplayerLife SimRPGAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingOpen WorldDating 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
vv1.04.2M to 9.8M
units (median: 7.0M)
≈ $35.9M to $83.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.046.9M to 109.5M
units (median: 78.2M)
≈ $401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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