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Cookie Clicker vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

10.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Cookie Clicker

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

22.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Cookie Clicker

5 years apart

A

Cookie Clicker

2021 · Casual

Orteil · Playsaurus

Reviews
85,736
Positive
96%
Launch price
$4.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
3.4M
Net rev
$9.8M
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

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Cookie Clicker, 13 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Cookie Clicker

ClickerIdlerManagementHorrorEconomyCollectathonFunnyMemesResource ManagementStrategyComedyColorfulTouch-Friendly

Shared

CasualIndiePixel Graphics2DBuildingSimulationSingleplayer

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureCraftingSandboxOpen WorldDating 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

2.1M to 4.8M

units (median: 3.4M)

$5.9M to $13.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.1Mmedian4.8M

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

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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