Close To The Sun vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
668.3× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
24.6pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
801.9× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Close To The Sun
4 years apart
Close To The Sun
2020 · Adventure
Storm in a Teacup · Wired Productions
- Reviews
- 1,300
- Positive
- 74%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 98K
- Net rev
- $1.1M
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
10% shared , 2 shared tags, 10 only on Close To The Sun, 18 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Close To The Sun
AdventureSteampunkWalking SimulatorFemale ProtagonistGoreHorrorFirst-PersonViolentAtmosphericSci-fi
Shared
IndieSingleplayer
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen World2DDating 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
vv1.059K to 137K
units (median: 98K)
≈ $668K to $1.6M 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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