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Banished vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

23.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

8.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

23.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stardew Valley

2 years apart

A

Banished

2014 · Indie

Shining Rock Software LLC · Shining Rock Software LLC

Reviews
37,726
Positive
90%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
3.4M
Net rev
$38.8M
B

Stardew Valley

2016 · Indie

ConcernedApe · ConcernedApe

Reviews
868,743
Positive
98%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
78.2M
Net rev
$669.5M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Banished, 13 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Banished

City BuilderColony SimStrategySurvivalMedievalResource ManagementEconomyManagementDifficultBeautifulProcedural GenerationHistoricalRTS

Shared

SimulationIndieSingleplayerSandboxRelaxingBuildingOpen World

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGAgricultureCraftingCasual2DDating 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

vv1.0

2.0M to 4.8M

units (median: 3.4M)

≈ $23.3M to $54.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.0Mmedian4.8M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

46.9M to 109.5M

units (median: 78.2M)

≈ $401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

46.9Mmedian109.5M

How comparison pages work

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