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Contraband Police vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

36.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

3.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

50.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Contraband Police

7 years apart

A

Contraband Police

2023 · Action

Crazy Rocks · PlayWay S.A.

Reviews
24,005
Positive
95%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.6M
Net rev
$26.7M
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Contraband Police, 16 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Contraband Police

First-PersonActionRealisticMultiple Endings1980sAutomobile SimFPSStory RichManagementDetectiveSurvivalImmersive SimAction-AdventurePhysicsDestructionAtmospheric

Shared

Open WorldSimulationSingleplayerIndie

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureCraftingSandboxBuildingCasual2DDating 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

936K to 2.2M

units (median: 1.6M)

≈ $16.0M to $37.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

936Kmedian2.2M

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

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