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Derail Valley vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

96.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

1.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

86.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Derail Valley

3 years apart

A

Derail Valley

2019 · Adventure

Altfuture · Altfuture

Reviews
9,041
Positive
97%
Launch price
$39.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
904K
Net rev
$20.7M
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

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Derail Valley, 14 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Derail Valley

Early AccessTrainsRealisticVRTransportationDrivingFirst-PersonPhysicsImmersive SimEconomyResource ManagementReplay ValueAdventureProcedural Generation

Shared

SimulationOpen WorldSingleplayerIndieSandboxRelaxing

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGAgricultureCraftingBuildingCasual2DDating 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

542K to 1.3M

units (median: 904K)

$12.4M to $28.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

542Kmedian1.3M

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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