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Balatro vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

7.8× more reviews

Critical reception

Balatro

0.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

14.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Balatro

13 years apart

A

Balatro

2024 · Casual

LocalThunk · Playstack

Reviews
155,457
Positive
98%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
7.0M
Net rev
$59.9M
B

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,216,769
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
103.4M
Net rev
$590.2M

Tag overlap

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Balatro, 15 only on Terraria.

Only Balatro

Card GameRoguelike DeckbuilderRogue-likeDeckbuildingStrategyRogue-liteTurn-BasedCard BattlerCasualDifficultChoices MatterTurn-Based StrategyRelaxingArcadeProcedural Generation

Shared

SingleplayerPixel GraphicsReplay Value2DIndie

Only Terraria

Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalMultiplayerAdventureCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldOnline Co-OpActionRPGPlatformerAtmospheric

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

vv1.0

4.2M to 9.8M

units (median: 7.0M)

$35.9M to $83.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

4.2Mmedian9.8M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

62.1M to 144.8M

units (median: 103.4M)

$354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

62.1Mmedian144.8M

How comparison pages work

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