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Darkest Dungeon® vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

6.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

6.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

5.9× more units (white-box estimate)

A

Darkest Dungeon®

2016 · Indie

Red Hook Studios · Red Hook Studios

Reviews
138,477
Positive
92%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
13.2M
Net rev
$187.8M
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Darkest Dungeon®, 16 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Darkest Dungeon®

Turn-Based CombatDark FantasyDungeon CrawlerRogue-likeLovecraftianDifficultTurn-BasedPerma DeathStrategyAtmosphericDarkRogue-liteHorrorGothicFantasyKickstarter

Shared

RPGSingleplayerIndie2D

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen 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

7.9M to 18.4M

units (median: 13.2M)

≈ $112.7M to $262.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

7.9Mmedian18.4M

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

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