Phasmophobia vs Starbound
Reviews on Steam
Phasmophobia
5.6× more reviews
Critical reception
Phasmophobia
4.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Starbound
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Phasmophobia
4.7× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Phasmophobia
4 years apart
Phasmophobia
2020 · Action
- Reviews
- 676,875
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 50.8M
- Net rev
- $579.7M
Starbound
2016 · Action
- Reviews
- 120,582
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 10.9M
- Net rev
- $92.9M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Phasmophobia, 15 only on Starbound.
Only Phasmophobia
HorrorPsychological HorrorSupernaturalVRFirst-PersonInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveMysteryThriller3DEarly AccessTacticalSingleplayer
Shared
Online Co-OpMultiplayerCo-opIndieAction
Only Starbound
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalSpaceAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOpen WorldExplorationRelaxing2DBuildingRPGAtmosphericSci-fi
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
vv1.030.5M to 71.1M
units (median: 50.8M)
≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.06.5M to 15.2M
units (median: 10.9M)
≈ $55.8M to $130.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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