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GemCraft - Chasing Shadows vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

199.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

3.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

210.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stardew Valley

1 years apart

A

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows

2015 · Action

Game in a Bottle · Armor Games Studios

Reviews
4,364
Positive
95%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
371K
Net rev
$2.1M
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, 11 only on GemCraft - Chasing Shadows, 16 only on Stardew Valley.

Only GemCraft - Chasing Shadows

Tower DefenseStrategyActionTop-DownFantasyTacticalClassicDifficultPuzzleMagicDark Fantasy

Shared

IndieSingleplayer2DGreat Soundtrack

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen WorldDating 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

223K to 519K

units (median: 371K)

≈ $1.3M to $3.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

223Kmedian519K

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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