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Melvor Idle vs Phasmophobia

Reviews on Steam

Phasmophobia

42.8× more reviews

Critical reception

Phasmophobia

4.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Melvor Idle

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Phasmophobia

40.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Melvor Idle

1 years apart

A

Melvor Idle

2021 · Adventure

Games by Malcs · Jagex Ltd

Reviews
15,830
Positive
90%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.3M
Net rev
$7.2M
B

Phasmophobia

2020 · Action

Kinetic Games · Kinetic Games

Reviews
676,875
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
50.8M
Net rev
$579.7M

Tag overlap

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Melvor Idle, 16 only on Phasmophobia.

Only Melvor Idle

IdlerRPGCasualAdventure2DMiningAutomationMinimalistFantasyCraftingCartoonMagicColorfulPoint & ClickCombatFishing

Shared

IndieSingleplayerDemonsEarly Access

Only Phasmophobia

HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opSupernaturalVRFirst-PersonInvestigationDarkDetectiveMysteryThriller3DActionTactical

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

760K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

$4.3M to $10.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

760Kmedian1.8M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

30.5M to 71.1M

units (median: 50.8M)

$347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

30.5Mmedian71.1M

How comparison pages work

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