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Element TD 2 - Tower Defense vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

379.9× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

7.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

430.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

10 years apart

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Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

2021 · Indie

Element Studios · Element Studios

Reviews
3,203
Positive
90%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
240K
Net rev
$2.1M
B

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,216,769
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
103.4M
Net rev
$590.2M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Element TD 2 - Tower Defense, 13 only on Terraria.

Only Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

Tower DefenseReal Time TacticsFantasyStrategyPvEPvPTeam-BasedCompetitiveCharacter CustomizationRTS3DTacticalScore Attack

Shared

MultiplayerBuildingCo-opOnline Co-OpSingleplayerReplay ValueIndie

Only Terraria

Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival2DAdventurePixel GraphicsCraftingExplorationOpen WorldActionRPGPlatformerAtmospheric

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

144K to 336K

units (median: 240K)

$1.2M to $2.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

144Kmedian336K

Sales estimate

vv1.0

62.1M to 144.8M

units (median: 103.4M)

$354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

62.1Mmedian144.8M

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