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Nova Drift vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

60.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

2.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$3.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

90.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Nova Drift

8 years apart

A

Nova Drift

2024 · Action

Chimeric · Pixeljam

Reviews
14,455
Positive
96%
Launch price
$17.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
867K
Net rev
$8.9M
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

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Nova Drift, 15 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Nova Drift

Action RoguelikeArena ShooterBullet HellRogue-liteShoot 'Em UpShooterArcadeAction RPGRogue-likeActionColorfulSpaceRetroReplay ValueEarly Access

Shared

2DCasualSingleplayerIndieGreat Soundtrack

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingOpen WorldDating SimCuteFishing

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

520K to 1.2M

units (median: 867K)

$5.3M to $12.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

520Kmedian1.2M

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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