Black Mesa vs Terraria
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
9.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
2.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Terraria
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
10.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Black Mesa
9 years apart
Black Mesa
2020 · Action
Crowbar Collective · Crowbar Collective
- Reviews
- 132,766
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 10.0M
- Net rev
- $113.7M
Tag overlap
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Black Mesa, 14 only on Terraria.
Only Black Mesa
FPSRemakeSci-fiFirst-PersonShooterClassicStory RichGreat SoundtrackAliensZombiesHorrorModEarly AccessGore
Shared
ActionSingleplayerAtmosphericAdventureMultiplayerIndie
Only Terraria
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival2DPixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldOnline Co-OpRPGReplay ValuePlatformer
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
vv1.062.1M to 144.8M
units (median: 103.4M)
≈ $354.2M to $826.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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