Raft vs Valheim: sales & reviews compared

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Raft

2022 · Adventure

Redbeet Interactive · Axolot Games

Reviews: 321,118
Positive: 93%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 22.5M
Net rev: $256.7M

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Valheim

2021 · Action

Iron Gate AB · Coffee Stain Publishing

Reviews: 455,972
Positive: 94%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 34.2M
Net rev: $390.5M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on Raft, 5 only on Valheim.

Only Raft

First-Person Underwater Simulation StrategyMassively Multiplayer

Shared

SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opCrafting Open World Building Base-BuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure SandboxSingleplayerEarly AccessActionIndie

Only Valheim

Exploration Difficult Mythology PvE Third Person

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

13.5M to 31.5M

units (median: 22.5M)

≈ $154.0M to $359.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

13.5M median 31.5M

+ How is this calculated?

321,118 reviews × NB(70) = 22,478,260 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

20.5M to 47.9M

units (median: 34.2M)

≈ $234.3M to $546.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

20.5M median 47.9M

+ How is this calculated?

455,972 reviews × NB(75) = 34,197,900 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_94%	+10
final NB	75

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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