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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

6.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

0.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

8.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stardew Valley

7 years apart

A

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

2009 · Strategy

PopCap Games, Inc. · PopCap Games, Inc.

Reviews
140,494
Positive
98%
Launch price
$4.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
9.8M
Net rev
$28.0M
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 Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, 14 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

Tower DefenseZombiesStrategyClassicComedyFamily FriendlyFunnyPuzzleAddictiveSurvivalTacticalAdventureTouch-FriendlyPost-apocalyptic

Shared

SingleplayerCasualGreat Soundtrack2DCuteIndie

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingOpen WorldDating SimFishing

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

5.9M to 13.8M

units (median: 9.8M)

≈ $16.8M to $39.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.9Mmedian13.8M

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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