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No Man's Sky vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

4.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

12.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$50.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

3.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

No Man's Sky

5 years apart

A

No Man's Sky

2016 · Action

Hello Games · Hello Games

Reviews
307,436
Positive
85%
Launch price
$59.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
29.2M
Net rev
$1000.8M
B

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,216,769
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
103.4M
Net rev
$590.2M

Tag overlap

60% shared , 12 shared tags, 8 only on No Man's Sky, 8 only on Terraria.

Only No Man's Sky

SpaceSci-fiProcedural GenerationFirst-PersonSpace SimSimulationFPSVR

Shared

Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftExplorationSurvivalAdventureMultiplayerSandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericCraftingIndieAction

Only Terraria

2DPixel GraphicsBuildingCo-opOnline Co-OpRPGReplay ValuePlatformer

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

17.5M to 40.9M

units (median: 29.2M)

$600.5M to $1401.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

17.5Mmedian40.9M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

62.1M to 144.8M

units (median: 103.4M)

$354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

62.1Mmedian144.8M

How comparison pages work

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