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Gold Mining Simulator vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

53.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

25.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

60.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Gold Mining Simulator

1 years apart

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Gold Mining Simulator

2017 · Indie

Code Horizon · Code Horizon

Reviews
16,166
Positive
73%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.3M
Net rev
$14.8M
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

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Gold Mining Simulator, 13 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Gold Mining Simulator

MiningRealisticDrivingEconomyFirst-PersonExplorationStrategyManagementAutomobile SimAdventureFunnyCo-opDifficult

Shared

SimulationSingleplayerOpen WorldIndieSandboxBuildingRelaxing

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGAgricultureCraftingCasual2DDating SimCuteGreat SoundtrackFishing

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

776K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

$8.9M to $20.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

776Kmedian1.8M

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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