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Hotel Architect vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

482.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

4.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

789.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Hotel Architect

10 years apart

A

Hotel Architect

2026 · Indie

Pathos Interactive · Wired Productions

Reviews
1,801
Positive
94%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
99K
Net rev
$1.7M
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, 12 only on Hotel Architect, 13 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Hotel Architect

StrategyManagementEconomyColorfulComedyCapitalismFunny3DTop-DownTime ManipulationEarly AccessFamily Friendly

Shared

SimulationBuildingLife SimSandboxRelaxingIndieSingleplayer

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerRPGAgricultureCraftingCasualOpen World2DDating 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

59K to 139K

units (median: 99K)

$1.0M to $2.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

59Kmedian139K

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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