Dark Deception vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
36.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
9.9pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
44.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Dark Deception
2 years apart
Dark Deception
2018 · Action
Glowstick Entertainment · Glowstick Entertainment
- Reviews
- 23,585
- Positive
- 89%
- Launch price
- n/a
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.8M
- Net rev
- $15.2M
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 Dark Deception, 16 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Dark Deception
HorrorFree to PlayFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorRunnerSurvival HorrorActionSurvivalDark HumorAdventureStory RichArcadeMultiple EndingsCinematicDarkDifficult
Shared
MultiplayerSingleplayerIndieRPG
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen 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
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $9.1M to $21.2M 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)
How comparison pages work
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