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CastleMiner Z vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

109.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

16.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

CastleMiner Z

$4.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

123.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

CastleMiner Z

3 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

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

55% shared , 11 shared tags, 9 only on CastleMiner Z, 9 only on Terraria.

Only CastleMiner Z

ZombiesFPSShooterDragonsFirst-PersonWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorHorrorPvP

Shared

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerActionSandboxAdventureIndieOpen WorldCraftingCo-opOnline Co-Op

Only Terraria

2DPixel GraphicsBuildingExplorationRPGSingleplayerReplay ValuePlatformerAtmospheric

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

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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