Cuphead vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
4.6× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
2.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
4.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Cuphead
1 years apart
Cuphead
2017 · Action
Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. · Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.
- Reviews
- 188,579
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 17.0M
- Net rev
- $193.8M
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
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Cuphead, 15 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Cuphead
DifficultCartoonCo-opPlatformerLocal Co-OpHand-drawnCartoonyRetroBullet HellActionShoot 'Em UpSide ScrollerColorfulSouls-likeFunny
Shared
Great Soundtrack2DMultiplayerIndieSingleplayer
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen WorldDating SimCuteFishing
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
vv1.010.2M to 23.8M
units (median: 17.0M)
≈ $116.3M to $271.3M 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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