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Raft vs Scrap Mechanic

Reviews on Steam

Raft

3.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Raft

1.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Raft

$9.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Raft

3.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Scrap Mechanic

4 years apart

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Raft

2022 · Adventure

Redbeet Interactive · Axolot Games

Reviews
323,060
Positive
93%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
22.6M
Net rev
$258.2M
B
S

Scrap Mechanic

2026 · Action

Axolot Games · Axolot Games

Reviews
109,201
Positive
92%
Launch price
$28.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
6.0M
Net rev
$99.5M

Tag overlap

80% shared , 16 shared tags, 4 only on Raft, 4 only on Scrap Mechanic.

Only Raft

Open World Survival CraftUnderwaterStrategyMassively Multiplayer

Shared

SurvivalMultiplayerCo-opCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase-BuildingOnline Co-OpAdventureSandboxFirst-PersonSingleplayerSimulationEarly AccessActionIndie

Only Scrap Mechanic

PhysicsThird PersonFunnyModdable

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

13.6M to 31.7M

units (median: 22.6M)

≈ $154.9M to $361.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

13.6M median 31.7M
+ How is this calculated?
323,060 reviews × NB(70) = 22,614,200 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2022 0
price_$20 0
positive_93% +10
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 70

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

3.6M to 8.4M

units (median: 6.0M)

≈ $59.7M to $139.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

3.6M median 8.4M
+ How is this calculated?
109,201 reviews × NB(55) = 6,006,055 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2026 -10
price_$29 +5
positive_92% +10
final NB 55

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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