Crying Suns vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
193.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
12.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
217.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Crying Suns
3 years apart
Crying Suns
2019 · Indie
- Reviews
- 4,499
- Positive
- 86%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 360K
- Net rev
- $5.1M
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
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Crying Suns, 16 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Crying Suns
StrategySpaceRogue-liteSci-fiPost-apocalypticReal-Time with PauseRogue-likeTacticalStory RichProcedural GenerationPerma DeathRTSHex GridReal Time TacticsResource ManagementDark
Shared
IndiePixel Graphics2DSingleplayer
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen 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
vv1.0216K to 504K
units (median: 360K)
≈ $3.1M to $7.2M 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)
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