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Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

23.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

5.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

35.2× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

6 years apart

A

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

2022 · Indie

niceplay games · tinyBuild

Reviews
37,031
Positive
93%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
2.2M
Net rev
$25.4M
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

55% shared , 11 shared tags, 9 only on Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, 9 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

MedievalManagementResource ManagementHand-drawnTradingChoices MatterPoint & ClickHistoricalCapitalism

Shared

CraftingSingleplayerRelaxingSimulationIndie2DLife SimRPGSandboxCasualFarming Sim

Only Stardew Valley

Pixel GraphicsMultiplayerAgricultureBuildingOpen WorldDating 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

vv1.0

1.3M to 3.1M

units (median: 2.2M)

$15.2M to $35.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.3Mmedian3.1M

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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