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PAYDAY™ The Heist vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

40.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

5.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

PAYDAY™ The Heist

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

42.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stardew Valley

5 years apart

A

PAYDAY™ The Heist

2011 · Action

OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. · Starbreeze Entertainment

Reviews
21,724
Positive
93%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.8M
Net rev
$10.5M
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

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on PAYDAY™ The Heist, 14 only on Stardew Valley.

Only PAYDAY™ The Heist

FPSActionCo-opHeistCrimeOnline Co-OpShooterFirst-PersonTeam-BasedStealthDifficultTacticalStrategyAdventure

Shared

MultiplayerGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerSimulationRPGIndie

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRelaxingAgricultureCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen World2DDating 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

1.1M to 2.6M

units (median: 1.8M)

≈ $6.3M to $14.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.1Mmedian2.6M

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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