Derail Valley vs Phasmophobia
Reviews on Steam
Phasmophobia
74.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Derail Valley
2.1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Phasmophobia
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Phasmophobia
56.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Phasmophobia
1 years apart
Derail Valley
2019 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 9,041
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $39.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 904K
- Net rev
- $20.7M
Phasmophobia
2020 · Action
- Reviews
- 676,875
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 50.8M
- Net rev
- $579.7M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Derail Valley, 15 only on Phasmophobia.
Only Derail Valley
TrainsSimulationRealisticTransportationDrivingOpen WorldPhysicsImmersive SimEconomyResource ManagementSandboxReplay ValueAdventureRelaxingProcedural Generation
Shared
Early AccessVRFirst-PersonSingleplayerIndie
Only Phasmophobia
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opSupernaturalInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveMysteryThriller3DActionTactical
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
vv1.0542K to 1.3M
units (median: 904K)
≈ $12.4M to $28.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.030.5M to 71.1M
units (median: 50.8M)
≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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