Black Mesa vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
6.5× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
3.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
7.9× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Black Mesa
4 years apart
Black Mesa
2020 · Action
Crowbar Collective · Crowbar Collective
- Reviews
- 132,752
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 10.0M
- Net rev
- $113.7M
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
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Black Mesa, 16 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Black Mesa
FPSRemakeActionSci-fiFirst-PersonShooterAtmosphericClassicStory RichAliensZombiesAdventureHorrorModEarly AccessGore
Shared
SingleplayerGreat SoundtrackMultiplayerIndie
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen World2DDating SimCuteFishing
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
vv1.06.0M to 13.9M
units (median: 10.0M)
≈ $68.2M to $159.2M 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)
How comparison pages work
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