Natural Selection 2 vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
65.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
13.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Natural Selection 2
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
83.7× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Stardew Valley
4 years apart
Natural Selection 2
2012 · Action
Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Reviews
- 13,342
- Positive
- 85%
- Launch price
- $4.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 934K
- Net rev
- $2.7M
Stardew Valley
2016 · Indie
- Reviews
- 868,743
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 78.2M
- Net rev
- $669.5M
Tag overlap
10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on Natural Selection 2, 18 only on Stardew Valley.
Only Natural Selection 2
StrategyFPSTeam-BasedActionSci-fiRTSAliensCompetitiveShooterCo-opTacticalModdableFirst-PersonSpaceFuturisticAtmosphericOnline Co-OpAdventure
Shared
MultiplayerIndie
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingSingleplayerCasualOpen 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
vv1.0560K to 1.3M
units (median: 934K)
≈ $1.6M to $3.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.046.9M to 109.5M
units (median: 78.2M)
≈ $401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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