Papers, Please vs Terraria
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
16.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
0.1pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
15.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Papers, Please
2 years apart
Papers, Please
2013 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 72,058
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 6.8M
- Net rev
- $39.1M
Tag overlap
35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Papers, Please, 13 only on Terraria.
Only Papers, Please
PoliticalSimulationPoint & ClickDystopian Multiple EndingsPuzzleStory RichRetroAddictiveGreat SoundtrackStrategyCasualDifficult
Shared
IndieSingleplayerPixel GraphicsAtmospheric2DReplay ValueAdventure
Only Terraria
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalMultiplayerCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldOnline Co-OpActionRPGPlatformer
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
vv1.04.1M to 9.6M
units (median: 6.8M)
≈ $23.4M to $54.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.062.1M to 144.8M
units (median: 103.4M)
≈ $354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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