Game Dev Tycoon vs Terraria
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
30.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
2.2pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
36.9× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Game Dev Tycoon
2 years apart
Game Dev Tycoon
2013 · Casual
Greenheart Games 💚 · Greenheart Games 💚
- Reviews
- 40,065
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 2.8M
- Net rev
- $16.0M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Game Dev Tycoon, 15 only on Terraria.
Only Game Dev Tycoon
ManagementSimulationStrategyCasualEconomyModdableAddictiveGameMakerFunnyDifficultPoint & ClickGreat SoundtrackIsometricComedyTouch-Friendly
Shared
IndieSingleplayer2DReplay ValueSandbox
Only Terraria
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerAdventurePixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldOnline Co-OpActionRPGPlatformerAtmospheric
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
vv1.01.7M to 3.9M
units (median: 2.8M)
≈ $9.6M to $22.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.062.1M to 144.8M
units (median: 103.4M)
≈ $354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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