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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

8.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

0.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

10.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Terraria

2 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

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,216,769
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
103.4M
Net rev
$590.2M

Tag overlap

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, 15 only on Terraria.

Only Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

Tower DefenseZombiesStrategyCasualClassicGreat SoundtrackComedyFamily FriendlyFunnyPuzzleAddictiveCuteTacticalTouch-FriendlyPost-apocalyptic

Shared

Singleplayer2DSurvivalIndieAdventure

Only Terraria

Open World Survival CraftSandboxMultiplayerPixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldOnline Co-OpActionRPGReplay ValuePlatformerAtmospheric

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

62.1M to 144.8M

units (median: 103.4M)

≈ $354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

62.1Mmedian144.8M

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