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Frostpunk vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

7.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

5.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

8.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Frostpunk

2 years apart

A

Frostpunk

2018 · Simulation

11 bit studios · 11 bit studios

Reviews
112,340
Positive
93%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
9.0M
Net rev
$154.0M
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 Frostpunk, 16 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Frostpunk

City BuilderSurvivalResource ManagementStrategyPost-apocalypticSteampunkColony SimBase-BuildingManagementChoices MatterAtmosphericEconomyDarkDifficultRTSReal-Time with Pause

Shared

BuildingSingleplayerSimulationGreat Soundtrack

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureCraftingSandboxIndieCasualOpen World2DDating SimCuteFishing

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

5.4M to 12.6M

units (median: 9.0M)

≈ $92.4M to $215.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.4Mmedian12.6M

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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