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Insurgency: Sandstorm vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

8.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

13.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

10.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Insurgency: Sandstorm

2 years apart

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Insurgency: Sandstorm

2018 · Action

New World Interactive · Focus Entertainment

Reviews
103,254
Positive
85%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
7.2M
Net rev
$123.8M
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Insurgency: Sandstorm, 16 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Insurgency: Sandstorm

FPSRealisticShooterMilitaryTacticalActionFirst-PersonWarOnline Co-OpCo-opGoreViolentDifficultAtmosphericMassively MultiplayerChoices Matter

Shared

MultiplayerSimulationOpen WorldIndie

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureCraftingSandboxBuildingSingleplayerCasual2DDating 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

4.3M to 10.1M

units (median: 7.2M)

$74.3M to $173.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

4.3Mmedian10.1M

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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