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Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

34.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

1.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

36.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021

10 years apart

A

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021

2021 · Racing

Red Dot Games · PlayWay S.A.

Reviews
35,274
Positive
96%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
2.8M
Net rev
$40.3M
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

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Car Mechanic Simulator 2021, 14 only on Terraria.

Only Car Mechanic Simulator 2021

SimulationAutomobile SimRealisticModdableDrivingRacing3DEducationFirst-PersonImmersive SimPuzzleMinigamesVRStrategy

Shared

SandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldAtmosphericAdventureIndie

Only Terraria

Open World Survival CraftSurvival2DMultiplayerPixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOnline Co-OpActionRPGReplay 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

vv1.0

1.7M to 4.0M

units (median: 2.8M)

≈ $24.2M to $56.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.7Mmedian4.0M

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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