POOLS vs Stardew Valley
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
138.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
3.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
POOLS
$5.20 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
192.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
POOLS
8 years apart
POOLS
2024 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 6,261
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $9.79
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 407K
- Net rev
- $2.3M
Stardew Valley
2016 · Indie
- Reviews
- 868,743
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 78.2M
- Net rev
- $669.5M
Tag overlap
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on POOLS, 16 only on Stardew Valley.
Only POOLS
Psychological HorrorWalking SimulatorAtmosphericRealisticExplorationFirst-PersonImmersiveSurrealAdventureNonlinearMinimalist3DUnderwaterDarkEscape RoomMystery
Shared
SingleplayerRelaxingIndieMultiplayer
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRPGAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualOpen World2DDating SimCuteGreat SoundtrackFishing
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
vv1.0244K to 570K
units (median: 407K)
≈ $1.4M to $3.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.046.9M to 109.5M
units (median: 78.2M)
≈ $401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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