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Don't Starve vs Phasmophobia

Reviews on Steam

Phasmophobia

7.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Don't Starve

2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Don't Starve

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Phasmophobia

5.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Phasmophobia

7 years apart

A

Don't Starve

2013 · Adventure

Klei Entertainment · Klei Entertainment

Reviews
96,212
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
9.1M
Net rev
$52.2M
B

Phasmophobia

2020 · Action

Kinetic Games · Kinetic Games

Reviews
676,875
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
50.8M
Net rev
$579.7M

Tag overlap

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Don't Starve, 16 only on Phasmophobia.

Only Don't Starve

SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingAdventureSandboxPerma DeathOpen WorldExplorationRogue-likeReplay ValueModdableDifficultSimulation2DTop-DownSurvival Horror

Shared

IndieSingleplayerMultiplayerHorror

Only Phasmophobia

Online Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSupernaturalVRFirst-PersonInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveMysteryThriller3DEarly AccessActionTactical

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

5.5M to 12.8M

units (median: 9.1M)

≈ $31.3M to $73.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.5Mmedian12.8M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

30.5M to 71.1M

units (median: 50.8M)

≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

30.5Mmedian71.1M

How comparison pages work

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