Best Served Cold vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

1340.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

10pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$3.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

2011.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Best Served Cold

9 years apart

Best Served Cold

2025 · Adventure

Rogueside · Rogueside

Reviews: 648
Positive: 88%
Launch price: $17.99
Engine: n/a
Sales (median): 39K
Net rev: $0.4M

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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Best Served Cold, 16 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Best Served Cold

Visual NovelDetectiveStory RichChoices MatterConversationCozyInvestigationInteractive FictionAtmosphericAdventureFantasyChoose Your Own AdventureHand-drawnLGBTQ+EmotionalRomance

Shared

RPGSimulationRelaxingIndie

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimAgricultureCraftingSandboxBuildingSingleplayerCasualOpen 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

vv1.0

23K to 54K

units (median: 39K)

≈ $240K to $559K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

23Kmedian54K

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

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