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CastleMiner Z vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

78.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

17.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

CastleMiner Z

$9.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

93.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stardew Valley

2 years apart

A

CastleMiner Z

2014 · Action

DigitalDNA Games · DigitalDNA Games

Reviews
11,127
Positive
81%
Launch price
$5.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
835K
Net rev
$2.9M
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

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on CastleMiner Z, 15 only on Stardew Valley.

Only CastleMiner Z

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalZombiesActionAdventureCo-opFPSShooterDragonsFirst-PersonWalking SimulatorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorHorrorPvP

Shared

MultiplayerSandboxIndieOpen WorldCrafting

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationBuildingSingleplayerCasual2DDating 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

501K to 1.2M

units (median: 835K)

≈ $1.7M to $4.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

501Kmedian1.2M

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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