News Tower vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
199.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
4.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
327.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
News Tower
9 years apart
News Tower
2025 · Simulation
Sparrow Night · Twin Sails Interactive
- Reviews
- 4,346
- Positive
- 94%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 239K
- Net rev
- $3.4M
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
35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on News Tower, 13 only on Stardew Valley.
Only News Tower
ManagementStrategyResource ManagementEconomyTime ManagementCapitalismTacticalChoices MatterHistoricalComedyAtmosphericAmericaEarly Access
Shared
SimulationSandboxIndie2DBuildingCraftingSingleplayer
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureCasualOpen WorldDating 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
vv1.0143K to 335K
units (median: 239K)
≈ $2.0M to $4.8M 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)
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